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IAI-Science-ISP-3-077-002:The Climate of Patagonia: General Patterns and Controls on Biotic Processes
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
"In this article we review the main characteristics of the Patagonian climate and the spatial and temporal patterns of the most important climatic variables and the influence of climate on ecosystem processes.
Description
The winter distribution of precipitation determines an asynchrony between the wet and the growing season in Patagonia. The amount of water that can be transferred to the growing season depends mainly on the physical characteristics of the soil.
In the semiarid steppe of Chubut, drainage accounted for by 100f annual precipitation. Winter distribution of precipitation determines also an asynchronic dynamics of evaporation and transpiration fluxes. The ENSO phenomenon have a significant impact on regional precipitation.
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In central-west Patagonia, spring precipitation (September to November) was lower than normal during La Nina events and greater than normal during El Nino events. From December to February the opposite pattern can be observed: higher than normal precipitation during La Nina events and lower than normal precipitation during El Nino events. The impact of this phenomenon on the seasonal temperature was not as clear as for precipitation.
We did not detect any temporal trends in annual precipitation for the period 1961-1996. The phenology of carbon gains is quite homogeneous in Patagonia. Most of the region showed a peak of production in November, when, simultaneously, water availability and temperature are high.
Toward the west, production peaked later (December). Deciduous forests showed the peak in January and February".
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Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214155344-SCIOPS.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214155344-SCIOPS.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- El Nino Southern Oscillation Enso · Not provided · Precipitation Amount · Precipitation Anomalies · Primary Production · Rain · Shrubland/Scrub
- Inferred from text
- Physical geography and environmental geoscience 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 14 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C1214155344-SCIOPS | 15 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
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| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3709 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (75%) |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/precipitation/liquid-precipitation/rain | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/precipitation/precipitation-amount | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/precipitation/precipitation-anomalies | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/ecological-dynamics/ecosystem-functions/primary-production | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/ecosystems/terrestrial-ecosystems/shrubland-scrub | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/climate-indicators/atmospheric-ocean-indicators/teleconnections/el-nino-southern-oscillation-enso | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-provided | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |