Summer precipitation variability over South America on long and short intraseasonal timescales

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 1993-2007

  Gonzalez, Paula L M ^a   Vera, Carolina S ^b  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

^b Centro de Investigacion del Mar y la Atmosfera   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Intraseasonal variability; MJO; SASS; South America; Summer precipitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890384375     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-2023-2     Document Type: Article

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