Recent developments on the South American monsoon system

JA Marengo, B Liebmann, AM Grimm, V Misra… - 2010 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
This paper reviews recent progress made in our understanding of the functioning and
variability of the South American Monsoon System (SAMS) on time scales varying from …

Precipitation extremes over La Plata Basin–Review and new results from observations and climate simulations

IFA Cavalcanti, AF Carril, OC Penalba, AM Grimm… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Monthly and daily precipitation extremes over La Plata Basin (LPB) are analyzed in the
framework of the CLARIS-LPB Project. A review of the studies developed during the project …

Land-use and climate change risks in the Amazon and the need of a novel sustainable development paradigm

CA Nobre, G Sampaio, LS Borma… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
For half a century, the process of economic integration of the Amazon has been based on
intensive use of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources, which has brought …

Regional climate change over eastern Amazonia caused by pasture and soybean cropland expansion

G Sampaio, C Nobre, MH Costa… - Geophysical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Field observations and numerical studies revealed that large scale deforestation in
Amazonia could alter the regional climate significantly, projecting a warmer and somewhat …

A new climate‐vegetation equilibrium state for tropical South America

MD Oyama, CA Nobre - Geophysical research letters, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The existence of multiple climate‐vegetation equilibria in Tropical South America is
investigated under present‐day climate conditions with the use of an atmospheric general …

Characteristics and spatio-temporal variability of the Amazon River Basin Water Budget

JA Marengo - Climate Dynamics, 2005 - Springer
The spatio-temporal variations of the water budget components in the Amazon region are
investigated by using a combination of hydrometeorological observations and moisture …

[HTML][HTML] Amazon deforestation and climate change in a coupled model simulation

P Nobre, M Malagutti, DF Urbano… - Journal of …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Amazon Deforestation and Climate Change in a Coupled Model Simulation in: Journal of
Climate Volume 22 Issue 21 (2009) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation Logo Logo Logo …

Improving drought management in the Brazilian semiarid through crop forecasting

MA Martins, J Tomasella, DA Rodriguez, RCS Alvalá… - Agricultural …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we evaluated the performance of the model AquaCrop for crop yield
forecasting in the Brazilian semiarid (BSA) using meteorological observation and Eta model …

[HTML][HTML] The Brazilian global atmospheric model (BAM): performance for tropical rainfall forecasting and sensitivity to convective scheme and horizontal resolution

SN Figueroa, JP Bonatti, PY Kubota… - Weather and …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Brazilian Global Atmospheric Model (BAM): Performance for Tropical Rainfall Forecasting
and Sensitivity to Convective Scheme and Horizontal Resolution in: Weather and Forecasting …

Interactions between sea surface temperature over the South Atlantic Ocean and the South Atlantic Convergence Zone

RR Chaves, P Nobre - Geophysical Research Letters, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Interactions between the sea surface temperature (SST) over the South Atlantic Ocean (40°
S‐Equador) and the South Atlantic Convergence Zone (SACZ) were studied through …