Recent Changes in the Annual Mean Regional Hadley Circulation and Their Impacts on South America

This work employs the regional climate model RegCM4 and observational datasets to investigate the impacts of changes in the intensity and poleward edge of regional HC over South America (HCSA) on the patterns of wind, geopotential height, precipitation, and temperature during the period 1996–2011. S...

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Main Authors: Ana Carolina Vasques Freitas, Tércio Ambrizzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Advances in Meteorology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/780205