Interdecadal variability and trends of rainfall across the Amazon basin

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 78, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 79-96

  Marengo, Jose A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO; RAINFALL; TREND ANALYSIS;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 3042696647     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-004-0045-8     Document Type: Article

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