scholarly journals Fenómenos meteorológicos y su efecto sobre la producción de café en la Zona Central de Veracruz

UVserva ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Paulo César Parada Molina ◽  
Mario Javier Gómez Martínez ◽  
Gustavo Celestino Ortiz Ceballos ◽  
Carlos Roberto Cerdán Cabrera ◽  
Juan Cervantes Pérez

La producción de café se está viendo afectada por cambios en los patrones climáticos y por la aparición de fenómenos meteorológicos que coinciden con importantes etapas fenológicas para este cultivo. El café es más sensible a variaciones del clima cuando se encuentra en las etapas de floración y el inicio del crecimiento del fruto, en este periodo cuatro fenómenos están presentes, que de acuerdo con su intensidad podría incidir de manera negativa. La etapa de maduración y cosecha es impactada por cinco fenómenos mientras que durante la etapa de crecimiento y llenado del grano sólo dos fenómenos la afectan. El Niño Oscilación del Sur (ENSO), en su fase negativa, intensificaría los efectos negativos. Sin embargo, no debe pasar inadvertido los efectos positivos del ENSO, en fase fría, en la temporada seca (diciembre-abril). Se deben buscar y estudiar estrategias de mitigación a la variación climática producto de los fenómenos meteorológicos, donde los sistemas agroforestales pueden ser una alternativa para enfrentar esta problemática.Palabras clave: Desarrollo reproductivo; ENSO; etapas fenológicas; eventos climáticos; regiones cafetaleras; variabilidad climática. Abstract: Coffee production is being affected by changes in weather patterns and the appearance of meteorological phenomena that coincide with important phenological stages for coffee cultivation. The coffee is more sensitive to the variations of the climate when it is in the stages of flowering and the beginning of the growth of the product, in this period four phenomena are present, and according to its intensity it could have a negative impact. The stage of maturation and harvest is shocking by five phenomena while during the growth stage and the grain volumes only two phenomena stress. El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), in its negative phase, would intensify the negative effects. However, the positive effects of the ENSO, in the cold phase, during dry season (December-April) should not go unnoticed. Mitigation strategies for climate variation due to meteorological phenomena must be sought and studied, where agroforestry systems can be an alternative to address this problem.Keywords: Reproductive Development; ENSO; Phenological Stages; Climatic Events; Coffee Regions; Climatic Variability.

Author(s):  
Lino Naranjo Díaz

Almost all the studies performed during the past century have shown that drought is not the result of a single cause. Instead, it is the result of many factors varying in nature and scales. For this reason, researchers have been focusing their studies on the components of the climate system to explain a link between patterns (regional and global) of climatic variability and drought. Some drought patterns tend to recur frequently, particularly in the tropics. One such pattern is the El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO). This chapter explains the main characteristics of the ENSO and its data forms, and how this phenomenon is related to the occurrence of drought in the world regions. Originally, the name El Niño was coined in the late 1800s by fishermen along the coast of Peru to refer to a seasonal invasion of south-flowing warm currents of the ocean that displaced the north-flowing cold currents in which they normally fished. The invasion of warm water disrupts both the marine food chain and the economies of coastal communities that are based on fishing and related industries. Because the phenomenon peaks around the Christmas season, the fishermen who first observed it named it “El Niño” (“the Christ Child”). In recent decades, scientists have recognized that El Niño is linked with other shifts in global weather patterns (Bjerknes, 1969; Wyrtki, 1975; Alexander, 1992; Trenberth, 1995; Nicholson and Kim, 1997). The recurring period of El Niño varies from two to seven years. The intensity and duration of the event vary too and are hard to predict. Typically, the duration of El Niño ranges from 14 to 22 months, but it can also be much longer or shorter. El Niño often begins early in the year and peaks in the following boreal winter. Although most El Niño events have many features in common, no two events are exactly the same. The presence of El Niño events during historical periods can be detected using climatic data interpreted from the tree ring analysis, sediment or ice cores, coral reef samples, and even historical accounts from early settlers.


Atmosphere ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn McGregor ◽  
Kristie Ebi

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an important mode of climatic variability that exerts a discernible impact on ecosystems and society through alterations in climate patterns. For this reason, ENSO has attracted much interest in the climate and health science community, with many analysts investigating ENSO health links through considering the degree of dependency of the incidence of a range of climate diseases on the occurrence of El Niño events. Because of the mounting interest in the relationship between ENSO as a major mode of climatic variability and health, this paper presents an overview of the basic characteristics of the ENSO phenomenon and its climate impacts, discusses the use of ENSO indices in climate and health research, and outlines the present understanding of ENSO health associations. Also touched upon are ENSO-based seasonal health forecasting and the possible impacts of climate change on ENSO and the implications this holds for future assessments of ENSO health associations. The review concludes that there is still some way to go before a thorough understanding of the association between ENSO and health is achieved, with a need to move beyond analyses undertaken through a purely statistical lens, with due acknowledgement that ENSO is a complex non-canonical phenomenon, and that simple ENSO health associations should not be expected.


2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 346-364
Author(s):  
Muhammad Imran Azam ◽  
Jiali Guo ◽  
Xiaotao Shi ◽  
Muhammad Yaseen ◽  
Muhammad Tayyab ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Edward Maru ◽  
Taiga Shibata ◽  
Kosuke Ito

This paper examines the tropical cyclone (TC) activity in Solomon Islands (SI) using the best track data from Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre Brisbane and Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre Nadi. The long-term trend analysis showed that the frequency of TCs has been decreasing in this region while average TC intensity becomes strong. Then, the datasets were classified according to the phase of Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and the index of El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) provided by Bureau of Meteorology. The MJO has sufficiently influenced TC activity in the SI region with more genesis occurring in phases 6-8, in which the lower outgoing longwave radiation indicates enhanced convective activity. In contrast, TC genesis occurs less frequently in phases 1, 2, and 5. As for the influence of ENSO, more TCs are generated in El Nino period. The TC genesis locations during El Nino (La Nina) period were significantly displaced to the north (south) over SI region. TCs generated during El Nino condition tended to be strong. This paper also argues the modulation in terms of seasonal climatic variability of large-scale environmental conditions such as sea surface temperature, low level relative vorticity, vertical wind shear, and upper level divergence.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hinrich Schaefer ◽  
Dan Smale ◽  
Sylvia E. Nichol ◽  
Tony M. Bromley ◽  
Ross J. Martin ◽  
...  

Abstract. The El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has been suggested as a strong forcing in the methane cycle and as a driver of recent trends in global atmospheric methane levels. Such a sensitivity of the global CH4 budget to climate events would have important repercussions for climate change mitigation strategies and the accuracy of projections for future greenhouse forcing. Here, we test the impact of ENSO on the CH4 cycle in a correlation analysis. We use local and global records of methane mixing ratio [CH4], as well as stable carbon isotopic records of atmospheric CH4 (δ13CH4), which are particularly sensitive to the combined ENSO effects on CH4 production from wetlands and biomass burning. We use a variety of nominal, smoothed and detrended time series including growth rate records. We find that at most 38 % of the variability in [CH4] and δ13CH4 is attributable to ENSO, but only for detrended records in the Southern tropics. Trend-bearing records from the Southern tropics, as well as all studied hemispheric and global records show a minor impact of ENSO, i.e.


Author(s):  
Holly Ching Yu Lam ◽  
Andy Haines ◽  
Glenn McGregor ◽  
Emily Ying Yang Chan ◽  
Shakoor Hajat

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a major driver of climatic variability that can have far reaching consequences for public health globally. We explored whether global, regional and country-level rates of people affected by natural disasters (PAD) are linked to ENSO. Annual numbers of PAD between 1964–2017 recorded on the EM-DAT disaster database were combined with UN population data to create PAD rates. Time-series regression was used to assess de-trended associations between PAD and 2 ENSO indices: Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) and multivariate El Niño Index (MEI). Over 95% of PAD were caused by floods, droughts or storms, with over 75% of people affected by these three disasters residing in Asia. Globally, drought-related PAD rate increased sharply in El Niño years (versus neutral years). Flood events were the disaster type most strongly associated with El Niño regionally: in South Asia, flood-related PAD increased by 40.5% (95% CI 19.3% to 65.6%) for each boundary point increase in ONI (p = 0.002). India was found to be the country with the largest increase in flood-related PAD rates following an El Niño event, with the Philippines experiencing the largest increase following La Niña. Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI)-analyses showed consistent results. These findings can be used to inform disaster preparedness strategies.


2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 676-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kailey Marcinkowski ◽  
David L. Peterson ◽  
Gregory J. Ettl

A stationary response of tree radial growth to climatic variables is assumed as a basis for climatic reconstructions and future growth projections in response to climate change. Mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) Carrière) trees on the western slopes of the North Cascade Range (Washington, USA) were examined for stability in growth response to climatic influences at a small spatial scale. Moving correlation functions demonstrate that climate–growth interactions are nonstationary over time, alternating between periods of significant and nonsignificant responses. Correlations between growth and winter precipitation have weakened, becoming statistically insignificant in the last decade, but correlations with spring temperature and previous-year summer temperature have strengthened, becoming statistically significant. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation influences patterns in climate–growth correlations but does not seem to account for the most recent changes in correlation strength. At an interannual scale, growth differs between El Niño Southern Oscillation phases, specifically between El Niño and La Niña years and between La Niña and neutral phase years. The variability in growth response to climate at interannual and interdecadal time frames, especially with the climate changes emerging in recent decades, will challenge the reliability and accuracy of reconstruction and predictive models.


Climate ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nkanyiso Mbatha ◽  
Sifiso Xulu

The variability of temperature and precipitation influenced by El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is potentially one of key factors contributing to vegetation product in southern Africa. Thus, understanding large-scale ocean–atmospheric phenomena like the ENSO and Indian Ocean Dipole/Dipole Mode Index (DMI) is important. In this study, 16 years (2002–2017) of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Terra/Aqua 16-day normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), extracted and processed using JavaScript code editor in the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform was used to analyze the vegetation response pattern of the oldest proclaimed nature reserve in Africa, the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park (HiP) to climatic variability. The MODIS enhanced vegetation index (EVI), burned area index (BAI), and normalized difference infrared index (NDII) were also analyzed. The study used the Modern Retrospective Analysis for the Research Application (MERRA) model monthly mean soil temperature and precipitations. The Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) evapotranspiration (ET) data were used to investigate the HiP vegetation water stress. The region in the southern part of the HiP which has land cover dominated by savanna experienced the most impact of the strong El Niño. Both the HiP NDVI inter-annual Mann–Kendal trend test and sequential Mann–Kendall (SQ-MK) test indicated a significant downward trend during the El Niño years of 2003 and 2014–2015. The SQ-MK significant trend turning point which was thought to be associated with the 2014–2015 El Niño periods begun in November 2012. The wavelet coherence and coherence phase indicated a positive teleconnection/correlation between soil temperatures, precipitation, soil moisture (NDII), and ET. This was explained by a dominant in-phase relationship between the NDVI and climatic parameters especially at a period band of 8–16 months.


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