Impact of Warmer Eastern Tropical Pacific SST on the March 2015 Atacama Floods

Northern Chile hosts the driest place on Earth in the Atacama Desert. Nonetheless, an extreme precipitation event affected the region on 24–26 March 2015 with 1-day accumulated precipitation exceeding 40 mm in several locations and hourly mean rainfall rates higher than 10 mm h −1 , producing floods...

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Published in:	Monthly weather review Vol. 144; no. 11; pp. 4441 - 4460
Main Authors:	Bozkurt, Deniz, Rondanelli, Roberto, Garreaud, René, Arriagada, Andrés
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Washington American Meteorological Society 01.11.2016
Subjects:	Climate models Coasts Cold Deserts El Nino Extreme weather Floods Observatories Precipitation Rain Sea surface temperature Water vapor
ISSN:	0027-0644, 1520-0493
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