Summer precipitation variability over Southeastern South America in a global warming scenario

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 1867-1883

  Junquas, C ^a,b   Vera, C ^b   Li, L ^a   Le Treut, H ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Climate change; ENSO; Rainfall variability; South America climate; WCRP CMIP3 multi model dataset

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONVERGENCE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; MOISTURE TRANSFER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84860338910     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1141-y     Document Type: Article

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