The early rainy season in Central America: the role of thetropical North Atlantic SSTs

We explored the relationship between the precipitation anomalies during May to June as the first peak of the rainy season in the Pacific slope of Central America, and sea surface temperature (SST) fluctuations in the surrounding oceans, using canonical correlation analysis (CCA). With this approach,...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:International Journal of Climatology
Main Authors: Maldonado Mora, Tito José, Alfaro Martínez, Eric J., Rutgersson, Anna, Amador Astúa, Jorge Alberto
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Seasonal climate prediction
Central America
Tropical North Atlantic
Sea surface temperature
Canonical correlation analysis
Heavy rainfall events
Pacific
Suecia
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10669/74091
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.4958/abstract;jsessionid=978AE674CA53C7EE82F12C752FA7FAB8.f01t02
https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4958

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