Climate variability and climate change in Mexico: A review

A review of research on climate variability, fluctuations and climate change in Mexico is presented. Earlier approaches include diferent time scales from paleoclimatic to historical and instrumental. The nature and causes of variability in Mexico have been attributed to large-scale southward/northwa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Jáuregui , Ernesto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1997
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Geofísica Internacional
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistagi.geofisica.unam.mx:article/658
Acceso en línea:http://revistagi.geofisica.unam.mx/index.php/RGI/article/view/658
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cambio climatico
Mexico
revisión de variabilidad climática
Climate change
climate variability review
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Sumario:A review of research on climate variability, fluctuations and climate change in Mexico is presented. Earlier approaches include diferent time scales from paleoclimatic to historical and instrumental. The nature and causes of variability in Mexico have been attributed to large-scale southward/northward shifts of the mid-latitude major circulation and more recently to the ENSO cycle. Global greenhouse warming has become a major environmental issue and has spawned a large number of climate-change related impact studies.