Weather regimes in the South American sector and neighbouring oceans during winter

• Published in: Climate Dynamics
• Main Authors: Solman, Silvina Alicia, Menendez, Claudio Guillermo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: WEATHER REGIMES; SOUTH AMERICA; WINTER; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Alicia; Argentina; Drake Passage; Pacific; Patagonia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/163470

We classified 34 years of winter daily 500 hPa geopotential height patterns over the eastern South Pacific-South America-South Atlantic region using the K-means clustering method. We found a significant classification into five weather regimes (WRs) defined as the most frequent large-scale circulati...