Do the recent severe droughts in the Amazonia have the same period of length?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 9-10, 2016, Pages 3279-3285

  Zou, Yong ^a,b   Macau, Elbert E N ^c   Sampaio, Gilvan ^c   Ramos, Antônio M T ^c   Kurths, Jürgen ^b,d,e,f  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^f LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Amazonia droughts; Drought period length; ENSO; SST; Tropical Atlantic

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AMAZONIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84938500263     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2768-x     Document Type: Article

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