Complex networks identify spatial patterns of extreme rainfall events of the South American Monsoon System

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 4386-4392

  Boers, Niklas ^a,b   Bookhagen, Bodo ^c   Marwan, Norbert ^b   Kurths, Jürgen ^a,b   Marengo, José ^d  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

climate networks; event synchronization; extreme precipitation; high resolution rainfall data; nonlinear correlation measures

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE ZONES; EVENT SYNCHRONIZATION; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; IMPORTANT FEATURES; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; NON-LINEAR CORRELATIONS; RAINFALL DATA; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; STORMS;

RAIN;

CONVERGENCE; DATA SET; MONSOON; NONLINEARITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; RESOLUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SYNCHRONY;

LA PLATA BASIN;

EID: 84882738612     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50681     Document Type: Article

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