Climate trends and variability in Ecuador (1966–2011)

This work was supported by the projects “Creacion de una base de datos climatica de calidad para el estudio del cambio climatico de las montanas del Peru-COOPB20042” and ‘Test multisectorial y actividades demostrativas sobre el potencial desarrollo de sistemas de monitorizacion de sequias en tiempo real en la region del oeste de Sudamerica-I-COOP H2O 2013CD0006’, both funded by the CSIC (Spanish Research Council). We thank the Ecuador National Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia e Hidrologia, INAMHI) and the International Research Center on EL Nino (Centro Internacional para la Investigacion del Fenomeno de El Nino, CIIFEN) for providing and pre-processing the climate data used in this work. ASL was supported by the postdoctoral fellowship JCI-2012-12508.