Intraseasonal and submonthly variability over the Eastern Amazon and Northeast Brazil during the autumn rainy season

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 81, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 177-191

  de Souza, Everaldo B ^a   Kayano, M T ^b   Ambrizzi, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAINFALL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

DRYAS IULIA;

EID: 21844438504     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-004-0081-4     Document Type: Article

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