Rainfall trends in the Brazilian Amazon Basin in the past eight decades

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 99, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 139-148

  Satyamurty, Prakki ^a,c   De Castro, Aline Anderson ^a   Tota, Julio ^a   Da Silva Gularte, Lucia Eliane ^b   Manzi, Antonio Ocimar ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INMET)   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

AMAZON BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 70849083254     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0133-x     Document Type: Article

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