Trend and uncertainty in spatial-temporal patterns of hydrological droughts in the Amazon basin

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 3307-3316

  Lopes, A V ^a   Chiang, J C H ^b   Thompson, S A ^c   Dracup, J A ^c  

^a Ministerio do Meio Ambiente Brazil   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon basin; hydrological drought; principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DROUGHT; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STREAM FLOW; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AMAZON BASIN; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STREAMFLOW RECORDS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84962724448     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL067738     Document Type: Article

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