Search Results - "Villar, Raul"
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Amazon Hydrology From Space: Scientific Advances and Future Challenges
Published in Reviews of geophysics (1985) (01-12-2021)“…As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in…”
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A study of sediment transport in the Madeira River, Brazil, using MODIS remote-sensing images
Published in Journal of South American earth sciences (01-07-2013)“…The Madeira River may contribute nearly half of the Amazon River sediment discharge to the Atlantic Ocean, showing the highest erosion rates in the Amazon…”
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Soil Salinity Mapping of Plowed Agriculture Lands Combining Radar Sentinel-1 and Optical Sentinel-2 with Topographic Data in Machine Learning Models
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-09-2024)“…This study assesses the relative performance of Sentinel-1 and -2 and their combination with topographic information for plow agricultural land soil salinity…”
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The Role of the Rainfall Variability in the Decline of the Surface Suspended Sediment in the Upper Madeira Basin (2003–2017)
Published in Frontiers in water (20-09-2021)“…The Madeira River rises in the Andes, draining the southwestern Amazon basin and contributing up to 50% of the Amazon River sediment load. The Porto Velho…”
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The optical properties of river and floodplain waters in the Amazon River Basin: Implications for satellite-based measurements of suspended particulate matter
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface (01-07-2015)“…Satellite images can now be used to assess river sediment discharge, and systematic studies over rivers and lakes are required to support such applications and…”
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An index concentration method for suspended load monitoring in large rivers of the Amazonian foreland
Published in Earth surface dynamics (04-06-2019)“…Because increasing climatic variability and anthropic pressures have affected the sediment dynamics of large tropical rivers, long-term sediment concentration…”
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On the Relationship between Suspended Sediment Concentration, Rainfall Variability and Groundwater: An Empirical and Probabilistic Analysis for the Andean Beni River, Bolivia (2003–2016)
Published in Water (Basel) (01-12-2019)“…Fluvial sediment dynamics plays a key role in the Amazonian environment, with most of the sediments originating in the Andes. The Madeira River, the second…”
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Mapping Three Decades of Changes in the Tropical Andean Glaciers Using Landsat Data Processed in the Earth Engine
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-05-2022)“…The fast retreat of the tropical Andean glaciers (TAGs) is considered an important indicator of climate change impact on the tropics, since the TAGs provide…”
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Monitoring Wildfires in the Northeastern Peruvian Amazon Using Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Imagery in the GEE Platform
Published in ISPRS international journal of geo-information (01-10-2020)“…During the latest decades, the Amazon has experienced a great loss of vegetation cover, in many cases as a direct consequence of wildfires, which became a…”
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Erratum: Barboza Castillo, E., et al. Monitoring Wildfires in the Northeastern Peruvian Amazon Using Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Imagery in the GEE Platform. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2020, 9, 564
Published in ISPRS international journal of geo-information (01-03-2021)“…The authors would like to make the following corrections to the published paper [...]…”
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Indirect Assessment of Sedimentation in Hydropower Dams Using MODIS Remote Sensing Images
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-02-2019)“…In this study, we used moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite images to quantify the sedimentation processes in a cascade of six…”
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Recommendations for home blood pressure monitoring in Latin American countries: A Latin American Society of Hypertension position paper
Published in The journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) (01-04-2020)“…Out‐of‐office blood pressure (BP) monitoring appears to be a very useful approach to hypertension management insofar it allows to obtain multiple measurements…”
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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring over 24 h: A Latin American Society of Hypertension position paper—accessibility, clinical use and cost effectiveness of ABPM in Latin America in year 2020
Published in The journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) (01-04-2020)“…Accurate office blood pressure measurement remains crucial in the diagnosis and management of hypertension worldwide, including Latin America (LA). Office…”
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The integration of field measurements and satellite observations to determine river solid loads in poorly monitored basins
Published in Journal of hydrology (Amsterdam) (11-06-2012)“…► A sediment monitoring network has been recently installed in Peru – a station failed. ► Satellite images (MODIS) are used to complete the missing records…”
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Decline of Fine Suspended Sediments in the Madeira River Basin (2003–2017)
Published in Water (Basel) (01-03-2019)“…The Madeira River is the second largest Amazon tributary, contributing up to 50% of the Amazon River’s sediment load. The Madeira has significant hydropower…”
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Variability of apparent and inherent optical properties of sediment-laden waters in large river basins - lessons from in situ measurements and bio-optical modeling
Published in Optics express (17-04-2017)“…We investigated the relationships between inherent and apparent optical properties (IOP and AOP, respectively) and suspended sediment concentrations (SSC) in…”
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Atherogenic Dyslipidemia in Latin America: Prevalence, causes and treatment
Published in International journal of cardiology (01-09-2017)“…Abstract This is an executive summary made by a group of experts named Latin American Academy for the study of Lipids (ALALIP). In the current clinical…”
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Spatial Distribution of Droughts in the Titicaca Lake Basin
Published in Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia (01-09-2022)“…Abstract The present research has assessed the spatial distribution of drought risk in the Titicaca Lake Basin located in Peruvian territory for a district…”
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Latin American Consensus on the management of hypertension in the patient with diabetes and the metabolic syndrome
Published in Journal of hypertension (01-06-2019)“…The prevalence of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) and the metabolic syndrome continues to increase in Latin America, while the rates of diagnosis,…”
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Latin American Consensus on management of residual cardiometabolic risk. A consensus paper prepared by the Latin American Academy for the Study of Lipids and Cardiometabolic Risk (ALALIP) endorsed by the Inter-American Society of Cardiology (IASC), the International Atherosclerosis Society (IAS), and the Pan-American College of Endothelium (PACE)
Published in Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico (03-01-2022)“…Hypertension, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, overweight, obesity, and tobacco (smoking, chewing, and vaping), together with a pro-inflammatory and procoagulant…”
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