El Niño southern oscillation and its effect on fog oases along the Peruvian and Chilean coastal deserts
Fog oases, locally named Lomas, are distributed in a fragmented way along the western coast of Chile and Peru (South America) between ~6°S and 30°S following an altitudinal gradient determined by a fog layer. This fragmentation has been attributed to the hyper aridity of the desert. However, peri...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | en |
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Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
2011
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| Online Access: | http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/3436/ |