Can southern Australian rainfall decline be explained? A review of possible drivers

RC McKay, G Boschat, I Rudeva… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Southern Australia's rainfall is highly variable and influenced by factors across scales from
synoptic weather to large‐scale circulation and remote climate modes of variability …

Two types of ridging South Atlantic Ocean anticyclones over South Africa and the associated dynamical processes

T Ndarana, TS Rammopo, CJC Reason… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - Elsevier
Using 41 years of ERA5 reanalysis, two types of ridging South Atlantic Ocean high pressure
systems were identified in the South African domain. Type-N events have a zonal structure …

Intraseasonal and interannual mechanisms of summer rainfall over Northeast Brazil using a hidden Markov model

I de Mendonça Silva, DM Medeiros, D Mendes… - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
A hidden Markov model (HMM) with four hidden states is used to describe the daily
precipitation occurrence and wet day intensities of a gridded precipitation dataset over the …

cloudbandPy 1.0: an automated algorithm for the detection of tropical–extratropical cloud bands

R Pilon, DIV Domeisen - Geoscientific Model Development, 2024 - gmd.copernicus.org
Persistent and organized convective cloud systems that arise in convergence zones can
lead to the formation of synoptic cloud bands extending from the tropics to the extratropics …

Recent changes in the dry-to-wet transition season in the Andean Altiplano and related atmospheric circulation patterns (1981–2022)

P Milla, JC Espinoza, R Gutierrez-Villarreal… - Climate Dynamics, 2025 - Springer
Drought-related impacts in the southern Tropical Andes are crucial for economic activities.
Here, precipitation decreases (p< 0.1) during the dry-to-wet transition season (SON) based …

Upper‐level midlatitude troughs in boreal winter have an amplified low‐latitude linkage over Africa

N Ward, AH Fink, RJ Keane… - Atmospheric Science …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In boreal winter, strong upper‐level midlatitude troughs across the Atlantic–Africa–
southwestern Asia sector generate substantial tropical–extratropical interaction and have …

Characteristics of tropical–extratropical cloud bands over tropical and subtropical South America simulated by BAM‐1.2 and HadGEM3‐GC3. 1

MT Zilli, NCG Hart, CAS Coelho… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical–extratropical cloud bands are common in South America (SAm), contributing
significantly to the total rainy season precipitation. Thus, it is fundamental that climate and …

The climate science for service partnership Brazil

CD Jones - Climate Resilience and Sustainability, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities continue to warm our climate in ways unprecedented in thousands of
years. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report confirms our …

cloudbandPy 1.0: an automated algorithm for the detection of tropical-extratropical cloud bands

R Pilon, D Domeisen - EGUsphere, 2023 - egusphere.copernicus.org
Persistent and organized convective cloud systems that arise in convergence zones can
lead to the formation of synoptic cloud bands extending from the tropics to the extratropics …

The Link Between Rossby Wave Breaking And Tropical-Extratropical Cloud Bands Over The South Pacific

R Pilon, A de Vries, DIV Domeisen - Authorea Preprints, 2025 - essopenarchive.org
Tropical-extratropical cloud bands are elongated cloud structures bridging tropical and
midlatitude regions, and are crucial drivers of precipitation. While these cloud bands result …