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HiClim-SA: Building a High-Resolution Climate Projection Dataset for South America—Part I: CMIP6 Model Selection

High-resolution climate projection datasets for South America require careful model selection, since regional climate depends on interacting atmospheric systems across multiple scales. Consequently, evaluations based only on statistical metrics may fail to determine whether model...

Land transformation driven by wind and solar development in Brazilian municipalities

Abstract In the last decade, Brazil’s energy sector has been moved from an exclusively hydroelectric and thermal mix to incorporate large-scale production of wind and solar photovoltaic energy. This energy transition is synchronized with the global imperative to reduce greenhouse...