Exploring the climate problems of Brazil's Nordeste: A review

Climatic Change

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 243-251

  Hastenrath, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ANNUAL CYCLE; CLIMATE DYNAMICS; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EMPIRICAL METHOD; FAR NORTH; INTERANNUAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; RAINY SEASONS; REAL-TIME PREDICTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONAL RAINFALL; SEMI ARID; SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

CLIMATOLOGY;

DROUGHT;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REAL TIME; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEMIARID REGION; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84859212094     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0227-1     Document Type: Review

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