The role of synoptic and intraseasonal anomalies in the life cycle of summer rainfall extremes over South America

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 9-10, 2016, Pages 3041-3055

  Hirata, Fernando E ^a   Grimm, Alice M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Extreme events; Intraseasonal variability; Precipitation; South Atlantic convergence zone; Synoptic disturbances

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966602876     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2751-6     Document Type: Article

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