Characteristics of Amazonian Climate: Main Features

Amazonia and Global Change

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 149-162

  Nobre, Carlos A ^a   Obregón, Guillermo O ^a   Marengo, José A ^a   Fu, Rong ^b   Poveda, German ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Amazon River Region Climate; Biosphere Research Amazon River Region; Climatic changes Amazon River Region; Rain forest ecology Amazon River Region

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; RAIN; RIVERS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TROPICS;

AMAZON RIVER; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTH ATLANTIC CONVERGENCE ZONES; THERMODYNAMIC CONDITIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84940724739     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GM000903     Document Type: Chapter

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