Influences of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on Rainy Season Precipitation for the Southernmost Caribbean Small Island State, Trinidad

• Published in: Atmosphere
• Main Authors: Nkese D. Mc Shine, Ricardo M. Clarke, Silvio Gualdi, Antonio Navarra, Xsitaaz T. Chadee
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: climate variability; precipitation; sea surface temperatures; early rainy season; late rainy season; correlations; composites; Trinidad; Caribbean; rainfall; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10110707

Seasonal rainfall in the Caribbean Basin is known to be modulated by sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTAs) in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and particularly those in the Equatorial Pacific and Atlantic and the Tropical North Atlantic. However, little is known about how these major oceans infl...