The 2014 southeast Brazil austral summer drought: regional scale mechanisms and teleconnections

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 11-12, 2016, Pages 3737-3752

  Coelho, Caio A S ^a   de Oliveira, Cristiano Prestrelo ^b   Ambrizzi, Tércio ^b   Reboita, Michelle Simões ^c   Carpenedo, Camila Bertoletti ^b   Campos, José Leandro Pereira Silveira ^b   Tomaziello, Ana Carolina Nóbile ^b   Pampuch, Luana Albertani ^b   Custódio, Maria de Souza ^b   Dutra, Lívia Marcia Mosso ^b   Da Rocha, Rosmeri P ^b   Rehbein, Amanda ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ITAJUBÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Austral summer; Drought; Precipitation; Sea surface temperature; Southeast Brazil; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DROUGHT; HADLEY CELL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; WALKER CIRCULATION;

AMAZON RIVER; ARGENTINA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); AUSTRALIA; BRAZIL; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PARAGUAY;

EID: 84939247891     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2800-1     Document Type: Article

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