From Amazonia to southern Africa: atmospheric moisture transport through low‐level jets and atmospheric rivers

• Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: Ramos, Alexandre M., Blamey, Ross C., Algarra, Iago, Nieto, Raquel, Gimeno, Luis, Tomé, Ricardo, Reason, Chris J.C., Trigo, Ricardo M.
• Other Authors: Natural Environment Research Council, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Water Research Commission, Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria, Xunta de Galicia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: Austral; Chaco; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13960; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fnyas.13960; https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nyas.13960

Abstract A Lagrangian analysis is applied to identify the main moisture source areas associated with atmospheric rivers (ARs) making landfall along the west coast of South Africa during the extended austral winter months from 1980 to 2014. The results show that areas that provide the anomalous uptak...