Are southern South American Rivers linked to the solar variability?

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1706-1714

  Compagnucci, Rosa Hilda ^a   Berman, Ana Laura ^b   Velasco Herrera, Victor ^c   Silvestri, Gabriel ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera ^*  (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

11 year solar cycle; Atuel River discharge; Hydrological cycle; Paran River discharge; Southern South America; Subtropical Argentinean Andean Rivers; Sunspot numbers; Wavelets transform

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; SOLAR ENERGY; TROPICS;

11-YEAR SOLAR CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; RIVER DISCHARGE; SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA; SUNSPOT NUMBER; WAVELETS TRANSFORM;

RIVERS;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; IRRADIANCE; PERIODICITY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR RADIATION; SUNSPOT; TRANSFORM;

ARGENTINA; ATUEL RIVER; PARANA RIVER;

EID: 84897916054     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3784     Document Type: Article

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