The unusual severity and return time of the 2005 and 2010 dry-season droughts in western Amazon is attributed partly to decadal climate fluctuations and a modest drying trend. Decadal variability of western Amazon hydroclimate is highly correlated to the Atlantic sea surface temperature (SST) north-south gradient (NSG). Shifts of dry and wet events frequencies are also related to the NSG phase, with a 66% chance of 3+ years of dry events per decade when NSG>0 and 19% when NSG
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Publication year
2015
Authors
Fernandes, K.; Giannini, A.; Verchot, L.V.; Baethgen, W.E.; Pinedo-Vasquez, M.
Language
English
Keywords
climate, prediction
