Summertime moisture transport over Southeastern South America and extratropical cyclones behavior during inter-El Niño events

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 303-310

  da Silva, Gyrlene Aparecida Mendes ^a   Ambrizzi, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CYCLONE; EL NINO; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; MOISTURE FLUX; MOISTURE TRANSFER; RAINFALL; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SUMMER; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TRACKING; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WAVE FIELD;

AMAZON BASIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 77955093288     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0218-6     Document Type: Article

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