Observed summer weather regimes and associated extreme precipitation over Distrito Federal, west-central Brazil

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4835-4848

  da Anunciação, Yumiko Marina Tanaka ^a   Walde, Detlef Hans Gert ^a   da Rocha, Rosmeri Porfírio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Central Brazil; Self organizing (Kohonen) maps and weather regimes; Summer rainfall

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; MECHANICAL WAVES; RAIN; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CENTRAL BRAZILS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SUMMER RAINFALL; URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE; WEATHER REGIMES;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER;

BRAZIL; FEDERAL DISTRICT [BRAZIL];

EID: 85027948792     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3607-9     Document Type: Article

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