Regionality of monsoon onset in South America: A three-stage conceptual model

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1309-1321

  Nieto Ferreira, Rosana ^a   Rickenbach, Thomas M ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Monsoon onset; Regional; South America

Indexed keywords

AMAZON RIVER; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONVERGENCE ZONES; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EVOLUTION; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECT VERSION 2; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LATE ARRIVAL; MONSOON ONSET; MONSOON SEASON; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; REGIONAL; REGIONAL VARIABILITY; SEASONAL CYCLE; SLOW MIGRATION; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH ATLANTIC; THRESHOLD ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

AMAZON RIVER;

EID: 79957912013     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2161     Document Type: Article

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