From drought to flooding: Understanding the abrupt 2010-11 hydrological annual cycle in the Amazonas River and tributaries

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Espinoza, Jhan Carlo ^a,b   Ronchail, Josyane ^c   Guyot, Jean Loup ^d,e   Junquas, Clementine ^f,g   Drapeau, Guillaume ^c,h   Martinez, Jean Michel ^d,e   Santini, William ^d,i   Vauchel, Philippe ^d,i   Lavado, Waldo ^b,j   Ordoñez, Julio ^j   Espinoza, Raúl ^d,k  

^a INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AGRARIA LA MOLINA   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d Lab Mecanismes Transfert Geol C   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^f Centro de Investigacion del Mar y la Atmosfera   (Argentina)

^g ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^h PRODIG   (France)

ⁱ INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Peru)

^j Servicio Nacional de Meteorologa e Hidrologa del Peru   (Peru)

^k Universidade Nasional de Brasília   (Brazil)

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Author keywords

Amazon basin; discharge variability; ENSO; floods; Peru; Solim es River

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860871298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/024008     Document Type: Article

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