The central andean west-slope rainshadow and its potential contribution to the origin of hyper-aridity in the Atacama Desert

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1453-1464

  Houston, John ^a   Hartley, Adrian J ^b  

^a Nazca SA   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atacama Desert; Chile; Hyper aridity; Palaeoclimate; Precipitation; Rainshadow

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; DATA REDUCTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN;

RAINSHADOW EFFECT;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; DESERT; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); UPLIFT;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0242381380     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.938     Document Type: Article

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