Teleconnection mechanisms of northeast Brazil droughts: modeling and empirical evidence

• Main Authors: Kucharski,Fred, Polzin,Dierk, Hastenrath,Stefan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Meteorologia 2008
• Subjects: circulation mechanisms; teleconnection; numerical modeling; equatorial Pacific; tropical Atlantic; Nordeste rainfall; Nordeste; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-77862008000200001

Targeted numerical modelling experimaents are conducted to complement the previous empirical diagnostics of circulation mechanisms leading from sea surface temperature (SST) departures in the equatorial Pacific in January to anomalies in the March-April rainy season of Brazil's Nordeste. A weak...