Two contrasting severe seasonal extremes in tropical South America in 2012: Flood in Amazonia and drought in Northeast Brazil

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 9137-9154

  Marengo, Jose A ^a   Alves, Lincoln M ^a   Soares, Wagner R ^a   Rodriguez, Daniel A ^a   Camargo, Helio ^b   Riveros, Marco Paredes ^c   Pabló, Amelia Diaz ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b Technology and Innovation   (Brazil)

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

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate classification regimes; Climate prediction; Climate variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION/REGIMES; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; INTENSE RAINFALLS; NORTHEAST BRAZIL;

DROUGHT; FLOODS; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; TROPICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; RAINFALL; SOIL MOISTURE;

AMAZONIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); BRAZIL; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84888070460     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00642.1     Document Type: Article

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