Determination of the onset dates of the rainy season in central Amazon with equatorially antisymmetric outgoing longwave radiation

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 97, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 361-372

  Garcia, Sâmia R ^a   Kayano, Mary T ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; LONGWAVE RADIATION; METHODOLOGY; SEASONALITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WET SEASON;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 68349101183     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-008-0080-y     Document Type: Article

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