This chapter reviews the progress made in the past decade in understanding tropical
Atlantic climate variability. In addition to an equatorially anti-symmetric seasonal cycle forced …

Study region This study has three spatial scales: global (0.5°), macro-regional, and country
scale. The database of drought events has specific entries for each macro-region and …

This study provides an overview of the drought situation in Northeast Brazil for the past,
present, and future. Droughts affect more people than any other natural hazard owing to …

The objective of this study was to evaluate the annual standardized precipitation index (SPI)
obtained from the DrinC software based on multivariate analysis in the identification of …

We propose a simple, spatially invariant and probabilistic year-round Empirical
Standardized Soil Moisture Index (ESSMI) that is designed to classify soil moisture …

Structure of Interannual-to-Decadal Climate Variability in the Tropical Atlantic Sector in:
Journal of Climate Volume 13 Issue 18 (2000) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

This study examines the uncertainties and the representations of anomalies of a set of
evapotranspiration products over climatologically distinct regions of South America. The …

El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) indices and satellite-recorded Normalized Difference
Vegetation Index (NDVI) were used to construct a drought onset prediction model for …

We used time-series analysis and linear regression to investigate the relationship between
the annual Niño-3 index from 1980 to 1998 and the annual incidence of visceral …

Desertification is a challenge in north-eastern Brazil (NEB) that needs to be understood to
develop sustainable land-use strategies. This study analyses regional vegetation dynamics …