Synoptic sea level pressure patterns–daily rainfall relationship over the Argentine Pampas in a multi-model simulation

The ability of 17 global circulation models to simulate daily rainfall of the Pampas region is assessed for winter and summer, key seasons for crop production in the region. Principal Component Analysis combined with k-means Cluster Analysis is employed to examine the models' representation of...

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Autores: Bettolli, Maria Laura, Penalba, Olga Clorinda
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2014
País:Argentina
Recursos:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositório:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/15854
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/15854
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Gcm
Sinoptic Climatology
Daily Rainfall
Pampas Region
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Resumo:The ability of 17 global circulation models to simulate daily rainfall of the Pampas region is assessed for winter and summer, key seasons for crop production in the region. Principal Component Analysis combined with k-means Cluster Analysis is employed to examine the models' representation of the relationship between daily sea level pressure of southern South America and rainfall. Models represent this relationship better for winter, reflecting their ability to reproduce winter synoptic scale patterns associated with rainfall. They precipitate too frequently at low intensity and less frequently at high intensity. This characteristic is more accentuated in winter.