Precipitation characteristics of the South American monsoon system derived from multiple datasets

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4600-4620

  Carvalho, Leila M V ^a   Jones, Charles ^a   Posadas, Adolfo N D ^b   Quiroz, Roberto ^b   Bookhagen, Bodo ^a   Liebmann, Brant ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Peru)

^c EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Climate variability; Climatology; Precipitation; Seasonal variability; South America

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; CLIMATE FORECASTS; CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; CLIMATIC FEATURES; DATA SETS; EARTH SYSTEMS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MONSOON SYSTEM; PHYSICAL SCIENCE; PRECIPITATION CHARACTERISTICS; REANALYSIS; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; SAMS; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SEASONALITY; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; EARTH (PLANET); NASA; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84858599522     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00335.1     Document Type: Article

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