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Recent intensification of Amazon flooding extremes driven by strengthened Walker circulation

The Amazon basin is the largest watershed on Earth. Although the variability of the Amazon hydrological cycle has been increasing since the late 1990s, its underlying causes have remained elusive. We use water levels in the Amazon River to quantify changes in extreme events and then analyze their ca...

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Autores principales: Barichivich, Jonathan, Gloor, Emanuel, Peylin, Philippe, Brienen, Roel J. W., Schöngart, Jochen, Espinoza, Jhan Carlo, Pattnayak, Kanhu C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6155052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30255149
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat8785