Study of the weather conditions of South America that produce droughts in the continental Ecuador

The adaptation to climate change (CC) and the mitigation of its impacts is one of the most important challenges of our civilization for this century. However, developing adequate knowledge to understand the CC and its consequences is extremely complex, since the climate system is unique and not exhaustively reproducible in all your interactions. Among the most dramatic impacts of the CC for society and ecosystems are droughts, which according to the intergovernmental climate change panel, IPCC, will increase in the future. In Ecuador very few drought studies have been carried out so far, which have mainly analyzed the tendencies of the droughts and the plausibility of their prognosis. However, there is a great empty of knowledge about the weather conditions in which the droughts, the reasons for the persistence of these conditions, and the influences on the three continental regions of Ecuador have been developed. For this reason, the main objective of this project is the study of the weather conditions of South America that produced droughts in Ecuador from 1980 to 2009. For this it will be used as a drought index in Ecuador the standardized precipitation index (SPI) in an analysis of the most relevant cases from 1980 to 2009.

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