Rainfall hotspots over the southern tropical Andes: Spatial distribution, rainfall intensity, and relations with large-scale atmospheric circulation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3459-3475

  Espinoza, Jhan Carlo ^a   Chavez, Steven ^a   Ronchail, Josyane ^b   Junquas, Clémentine ^a,c   Takahashi, Ken ^a   Lavado, Waldo ^d  

^a INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c VERIMAG   (France)

^d Servicio Nacional de Meteorologa e Hidrologa del Peru   (Peru)

Author keywords

Andes Amazon; atmospheric circulation; extreme events; rainfall

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN GAGES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WIND;

ANDES-AMAZON; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EXTREME EVENTS; INTRASEASONAL TIME SCALE; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; POSITIVE RAINFALL ANOMALIES; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DEPTH DETERMINATION; EXTREME EVENT; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIMESCALE; TOPOGRAPHY; TRMM; WIND DIRECTION;

AMAZON RIVER; ANDES; BOLIVIA; PERU;

EID: 85028214018     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016273     Document Type: Article

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