Tropical oceanic causes of interannual to multidecadal precipitation variability in southeast South America over the past century

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 5517-5539

  Seager, Richard ^a   Naik, Naomi ^a   Baethgen, Walter ^b   Robertson, Andrew ^b   Kushnir, Yochanan ^a   Nakamura, Jennifer ^a   Jurburg, Stephanie ^c  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Earth Institute   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Multidecadal variability; Precipitation; Sea surface temperature; South America; Trends; Tropics

Indexed keywords

MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; PRECIPITATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTH AMERICA; TRENDS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRIVES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER RESOURCES;

TROPICS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TREND ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 78649274470     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3578.1     Document Type: Article

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