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Unraveling the impacts of droughts and agricultural intensification on the Altiplano water resources

Satgé, Frédéric, Hussain, Yawar, Xavier, Alvaro, Zolá, Ramiro Pillco, Salles, Leandro, Timouk, Franck, Seyler, Frédérique, Garnier, Jérémie, Frappart, Frédéric, and Bonnet, Marie-Paule, 2019. Unraveling the impacts of droughts and agricultural intensification on the Altiplano water resources. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 279:107710, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.107710.

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@ARTICLE{2019AgFM..27907710S,
       author = {{Satg{\'e}}, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and {Hussain}, Yawar and {Xavier}, Alvaro and {Zol{\'a}}, Ramiro Pillco and {Salles}, Leandro and {Timouk}, Franck and {Seyler}, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}rique and {Garnier}, J{\'e}r{\'e}mie and {Frappart}, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and {Bonnet}, Marie-Paule},
        title = "{Unraveling the impacts of droughts and agricultural intensification on the Altiplano water resources}",
      journal = {Agricultural and Forest Meteorology},
     keywords = {Climate, Agriculture, Water scarcity, Hydrological drought, Remote sensing},
         year = 2019,
        month = dec,
       volume = {279},
          eid = {107710},
        pages = {107710},
     abstract = "{During the last decades, agriculture has drastically increased over the
        South American Andean Plateau (Altiplano), resulting in
        extensive changes in land cover from native vegetation to
        essentially Quinoa crop. Along with climatic variability, these
        land use changes appear as a catalyst in worsening the already
        existing drought events and water scarcity processes. Hence,
        understanding their relative contributions to the regional
        desertification process is crucial for sustainable water-use
        adaptation, but also is quite ambiguous because of water
        resource data scarcity over the Altiplano. Therefore, in the
        present study, an attempt to measure the impact of severe
        droughts and agricultural intensification on the water resources
        has been made using remote sensing datasets. The first step was
        dedicated to the validation of newly released CHIRPS v.2
        precipitation and GLEAM v.3 potential evapotranspiration
        products by comparing their estimates with the results obtained
        from gauges data. Then, the Standardized Precipitation Index
        (SPI) was used to describe past hydro-meteorological drought
        events in terms of their spatial extent, duration, intensity and
        their impacts on the regional water resources. Finally, the
        dynamic trends in the spatial extent of the Quinoa crop and the
        meteorological conditions derived from CHIRPS v.2 and GLEAM v.3
        were compared with the Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) and the
        Total Water Storage (TWS) derived from AVHRR and GRACE data
        respectively, to observe the respective influence of agriculture
        and climate variability on the regional hydrological system. A
        significant increase in Quinoa crop extent is observed from 2001
        which corresponds to a significant decrease in regional VCI and
        TWS. Based on this trend, agriculture appears as a contributing
        factor in the water scarcity process over the Altiplano. The
        outcomes of this study will contribute to local decision making
        for a better water management and hydro-meteorological
        monitoring system.}",
          doi = {10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.107710},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AgFM..27907710S},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

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