Warming and wetting signals emerging from analysis of changes in climate extreme indices over South America

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 100, Issue , 2013, Pages 295-307

  Skansi, María de los Milagros ^a   Brunet, Manola ^b,c   Sigró, Javier ^b   Aguilar, Enric ^b   Arevalo Groening, Juan Andrés ^d   Bentancur, Oscar J ^e   Castellón Geier, Yaruska Rosa ^f   Correa Amaya, Ruth Leonor ^g   Jácome, Homero ^h   Malheiros Ramos, Andrea ^i,j,r   Oria Rojas, Clara ^k   Pasten, Alejandro Max ^l   Sallons Mitro, Sukarni ^m   Villaroel Jiménez, Claudia ⁿ   Martínez, Rodney ^o   Alexander, Lisa V ^p   Jones, P D ^c,q  

^a Ministerio de Defensa Republica Argentina   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia e Hidrologia INAMEH   (Venezuela)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^f Unidad Climatologia   (Bolivia)

^g IDEAM   (Colombia)

^h Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología INAMHI   (Ecuador)

ⁱ INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METROLOGIA   (Brazil)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

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

^l Direccion Nacional de Aeronautica Civil   (Paraguay)

^m Meteorological Service Suriname   (Suriname)

ⁿ Dirección Meteorológica de Chile   (Chile)

^o CIIFEN Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño   (Ecuador)

^p UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^q KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^r NONE   (Portugal)

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Author keywords

Amazonia; Climate extreme indices; Daily temperature and precipitation data; ETCCDI; Homogenization; Northeastern Brazil; Precipitation extreme indices change; Quality control; South America; Southeastern South America; Temperature extreme indices change; Western South America

Indexed keywords

HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; QUALITY CONTROL; RAIN; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; WETTING;

AMAZONIA; CLIMATE EXTREME INDICES; ETCCDI; NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH AMERICA; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES; WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SIGNAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WARMING; WETTING;

AMAZONIA; ECUADOR; GUAYAQUIL; GUAYAS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84870784986     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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