Weather types across the Caribbean basin and their relationship with rainfall and sea surface temperature

• Published in: Climate Dynamics
• Main Authors: Moron, Vincent, Gouirand, Isabelle, Taylor, Michael
• Other Authors: Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Nash; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01765466; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2858-9

International audience Eight weather types (WTs) are computed over 98.75 degrees W-56.25 degrees W, 8.75 degrees N-31.25 degrees N using cluster analysis of daily low-level (925 hPa) winds and outgoing long-wave radiation, without removing the mean annual cycle, by a k-means algorithm from 1979 to 2...