Climate diagnostics of three major drought events in the Amazon and illustrations of their seasonal precipitation predictions

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 237-255

  Coelho, Caio A S ^a   Cavalcanti, Iracema A F ^a   Costa, Simone M S ^a   Freitas, Saulo R ^a   Ito, Ester R ^a   Luz, Giovana ^a   Santos, Ariane F ^a   Nobre, Carlos A ^a   Marengo, José A ^a   Pezza, Alexandre B ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Amazon droughts; Extreme river levels; Monsoon precipitation regime; Seasonal prediction; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RIVERS; SPACE RESEARCH; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION DEFICITS; RIVER LEVELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SEASONAL PREDICTION; TELECONNECTIONS;

DROUGHT;

AEROSOL; BIOMASS BURNING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RETURN PERIOD; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL;

EID: 84861808026     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.1324     Document Type: Article

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