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Early Summer Rains and Their Mid-Summer Cessation Over the Caribbean: Dynamics, Predictability, and Applications
of a dissertation at the University of Miami. Dissertation supervised by Professor Brian Mapes. No. of pages in text. (103) The annual rainfall cycle in the Caribbean is characterized by a bimodal pattern with peaks in the late spring (“early rainfall season”) and late summer (“late rainfall season”) with a mid-summer minimum (“mid-summer drought”). The time average rainfall pattern during the ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature Geoscience
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1752-0894,1752-0908
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1491