El Niño signal variability in the precipitation over southeastern South America during austral summer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Silvestri, Gabriel E ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

3339 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Ocean atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504); 3354 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Precipitation (1854); 9360 Information related to geographic region: South America

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; MOISTURE;

AUSTRAL SUMMER; MOISTURE FLOW; SUBTROPICAL JETS;

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY;

SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 10644252720     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020590     Document Type: Article

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