Factors other than climate change, main drivers of 2014/15 water shortage in southeast Brazil

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2015, Pages S35-S40

  Otto, Friederike E L ^a   Coelho, Caio A S ^b   King, Andrew ^c   De Perez, Erin Coughlan ^d,e,f   Wada, Yoshihide ^g,h,i   Van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan ^j   Haarsma, Rein ^j   Haustein, Karsten ^a   Uhe, Peter ^a   Van Aalst, Maarten ^d,f   Aravequia, Jose Antonio ^b   Almeida, Waldenio ^b   Cullen, Heidi ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre   (Netherlands)

^e INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^f Earth Institute   (United States)

^g UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

ⁱ NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^j ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^k Climate Central   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER SUPPLY;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; SOUTHEAST BRAZIL; WATER CONSUMPTION; WATER SHORTAGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84955438265     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00120.1     Document Type: Review

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