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Iracema F. A. Cavalcanti
Researcher at National Institute for Space Research
Publications - 74
Citations - 3594
Iracema F. A. Cavalcanti is an academic researcher from National Institute for Space Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Precipitation & South Atlantic Convergence Zone. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 70 publications receiving 3030 citations. Previous affiliations of Iracema F. A. Cavalcanti include National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.
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Recent developments on the South American monsoon system
José A. Marengo,Brant Liebmann,Alice M. Grimm,Vasubandhu Misra,P. L. Silva Dias,Iracema F. A. Cavalcanti,Leila M. V. Carvalho,Ernesto Hugo Berbery,Tércio Ambrizzi,Carolina Vera,A. C. Saulo,Julia Nogués-Paegle,Edward J. Zipser,Anji Seth,Lincoln M. Alves +14 more
TL;DR: Marengo et al. as discussed by the authors proposed Marengo, J. A., Centro de Previsao de Tempo e Estudos Climaticos. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais; Brasil
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Monsoons in a changing world: A regional perspective in a global context
Akio Kitoh,Hirokazu Endo,K. Krishna Kumar,Iracema F. A. Cavalcanti,Prashant Goswami,Tianjun Zhou +5 more
TL;DR: The authors provided a new view of global and regional monsoonal rainfall, and their changes in the 21st century under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios as projected by 29 climate models that participated in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5.
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A review of the Southern Oscillation: oceanic-atmospheric circulation changes and related rainfall anomalies
TL;DR: A review of the Southern Oscillation and related rainfall anomalies with special emphasis on the region of South America can be found in this paper, where the authors consider oceanic and atmospheric circulation changes.
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Annual variation of rainfall over Brazil and water vapor characteristics over South America
TL;DR: In this paper, a vertically integrated water vapor flux and its divergence are made for South America, and the results suggest that the Amazon basin is the principal source of moisture for central Brazil during the 6-month period of September, October, November, December, January, and February.
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Influences of two types of ENSO on South American precipitation
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of different Pacific spatial patterns on South American precipitation and on the Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation were compared with those from ENSO Modoki in cases when strong anomalies were present in the Central Pacific.