Climate of Brazil's nordeste and tropical atlantic sector: preferred time scales of variability

• Published in: Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia
• Main Authors: Dierk Polzin, Stefan Hastenrath
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Portuguese
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Meteorologia 2014
• Subjects: Nordeste; Atlântico Tropical; precipitação; variabilidade climática; escalas de tempo; análise espectral; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-77862014000200001; https://doaj.org/article/6fc5438b836b4723a202f6895ac9554c

Resuming earlier research, this study explores rainfall variability in Brazil's Nordeste and underlying circulation mechanisms. The semi-arid northern Nordeste has its short rainy season centered around March-April-May, when temperature maximum, low pressure trough and wind confluence reach the...