The nature of the rainfall onset over central South America

Atmosfera

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 377-394

  Gonzalez M ^a   Vera, C S ^a   Liebmann, B ^b   Marengo, J A ^c   Kousky, V ^d   Allured, D ^b  

^a Centro de Investigacion del Mar y la Atmosfera   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos CTPEC   (Brazil)

^d CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Onset; Rainfall; South America; Summer monsoon; Tropical climate

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MONSOON; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 35648978150     PISSN: 01876236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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