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Douglas Batista da Silva Ferreira1, Everaldo Barreiros de Souza2, Bergson Cavalcanti de Moraes2
1Vale Institute of Technology, Boaventura da Silva Street 955, 66055-090 Belém, PA, Brazil ; Post-Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Augusto Corrêa Street 1, 66075-110 Belém, PA, Brazil.
Abstract:
Empirical orthogonal functions (EOF) and composites analysis were employed on pentad data in order to investigate the tropical atmospheric-ocean patterns over the Atlantic Ocean and the spatial-temporal characteristics of the rainfall in eastern Amazon during the peak of the rainy season (February to April). The EOF results evidenced that the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is the main rainfall-producing system in eastern Amazon during the rainy season. Conditions associated with the southward SST gradient in the intertropical Atlantic formed the dynamic patterns that favored the position of the ITCZ to south of the equator, thus explaining the predominance of positive precipitation anomalies in eastern Amazon, especially in the state of Maranhão and northeastern Pará during the February and April months.
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