The relationship between tropical convection in South America and the end of the dry period in subtropical Argentina

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 1669-1685

  Gonzalez, Marcela ^a   Barros, Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Annual outgoing longwave radiation; Anomalies; Argentina; Correlation; Factor analysis; Principal component analysis; Rainfall; South America, subtropical; Tropical convection

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; DRY SEASON; LONGWAVE RADIATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032469135     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199812)18:15<1669::AID-JOC340>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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