Modern Andean Rainfall Variation during ENSO Cycles and its Impact on the Amazon Drainage Basin

Amazonia: Landscape and Species Evolution: A look into the past

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 223-241

  Bookhagen, Bodo ^a   Strecker, Manfred R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

El Ni o Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycles modern and past spatiotemporal rainfall variation in South America; ENSO, coupled ocean atmosphere phenomenon globally relevant climate variability; Global coupled ocean atmosphere ENSO phenomenon environmental condition impact on South America; Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ); L band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery mapping wetland inundation and vegetation extent; Large scale floodplain monitoring in Amazon and innovative remote sensing work; Modern Andean rainfall variation ENSO cycles and Amazon drainage basin impact; Routing discharge with Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) topographic data; SRTM topography of Amazon drainage system; Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886163987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306408.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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