@Article{NobreMarSelCuaAlv:2016:SoChIm,
author = "Nobre, Carlos Afonso and Marengo, Jos{\'e} Antonio and Seluchi,
Marcelo E. and Cuartas, Adriana and Alves, Lincoln Muniz",
affiliation = "{Coordena{\c{c}}{\~a}o de Aperfei{\c{c}}oamento de Pessoal de
N{\'{\i}}vel Superior (CAPES)} and {Centro Nacional de
Monitoramento e Alertas aos Desastres Naturais (CEMADEN)} and
{Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas aos Desastres Naturais
(CEMADEN)} and {Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas aos
Desastres Naturais (CEMADEN)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas
Espaciais (INPE)}",
title = "Some Characteristics and Impacts of the Drought and Water Crisis
in Southeastern Brazil during 2014 and 2015",
journal = "Journal of Water Resource and Protection",
year = "2016",
volume = "8",
number = "2",
pages = "252--262",
month = "Feb.",
keywords = "Drought, Sao Paulo, Water Crisis, Vulnerability.",
abstract = "Since the austral summer of 2014 southeastern Brazil has been
experiencing one of the most severe droughts in decades. This
rainfall deficiency has generated water shortages and a water
crisis that have affected population and local economies in the
metropolitan region of Sao Paulo, the largest megacity in South
America. By January 2015, main reservoirs had reached storage
levels of only 5% of their 1.3 billion m3 capacity. The
meteorological causes of the drought situation were linked to
changes in the regional circulation, characterized by a
mid-troposphere blocking high that lasted 45 days during the
summer of 2014 over southeastern Brazil, something not seen in
five decades. The water crisis was aggravated by a combination of
lack of rainfall and higher temperatures, the summer of 2014 being
the warmest and driest over the Cantareira reservoir system since
1951. Increasing population and water consumption increased
vulnerability in the region, and while human-induced warming may
not have generated the atmospheric conditions behind the 2014 and
2015 summer droughts in Southeast Brazil, it is more likely that
the warm temperatures have affected the severity of the drought
and exacerbated the impacts on the population.",
doi = "10.4236/jwarp.2016.82022",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jwarp.2016.82022",
issn = "1945-3094",
language = "en",
targetfile = "nobre_some.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "15 jun. 2024"
}