Circulation and teleconnection mechanisms of Northeast Brazil droughts

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 70, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 407-415

  Hastenrath, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere hydrosphere system; El Ni o; Equatorial Pacific; Northeast Brazil; Sea surface temperature; Southern Oscillation; Teleconnection; Temperature gradient; Tropical Atlantic

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EVAPORATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERE-HYDROSPHERE SYSTEM; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; NORTHEAST BRAZIL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTION MECHANISM; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; SEA SURFACE; SEMIARID REGION; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33748050100     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2005.07.004     Document Type: Article

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