The influence of oceanic basins on drought and ecosystem dynamics in Northeast Brazil

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Pereira, Marcos Paulo Santos ^a   Justino, Flavio ^a   Malhado, Ana Claudia Mendes ^b   Barbosa, Humberto ^b   Marengo, José ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Extreme climate; Sea surface temperature; Tropical dry ecosystems

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; VEGETATION;

ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; EXTREME CLIMATES; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NORTHEAST BRAZIL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TYPICAL CLIMATIC CONDITIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CAATINGA; CARBON DIOXIDE; DECADAL VARIATION; DROUGHT STRESS; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL REGION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84919608964     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/12/124013     Document Type: Article

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