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Comments on ‘correlations between the tropical atlantic trade winds and precipitation in northeastern Brazil’

✍ Scribed by Hastenrath, Stefan ;Chung, James C.

Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year: 1983
Weight: 236 KB
Volume: 3
Category: Article
ISSN: 2314-6214
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3370030210

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has undertaken a voluminous exercise in data processing that mostly repeats our work of half a decade before, published in another journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (Hastenrath and Heller, 1977). However, his observational basis is more limited-he relies on a single rainfall station and uses only the sea surface temperature (SST) and wind fields in the Atlantic. His isocorrelate maps

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## Abstract Surface wind and sea surface temperature data for the tropical Atlantic Ocean for the period 1911‐1972 are analysed in relation to the precipitation at Quixeramobim, Ceará in northeastern (NE) Brazil. Stratified correlations between the March‐April‐May Quixeramobim rainfall and the Dece