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Abstract:

The Paraná-Plata basin is the second largest hydrological basin in South America and is of great importance for the countries of the region (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay). The present study focuses on the long-term trends in basin-scale precipitation with special emphasis on the role of distribution changes in extreme large-scale precipitation events and on the characteristics and evolution of ENSO teleconnections over the last 50 years. First, we defined a Paraná-Plata basin total precipitation index (PTPI) as the precipitations spatially averaged over the hydrological basin. On interannual time scales, such an index is mainly representative of anomalous monsoon precipitations in the northern part of the basin and large convective precipitation anomalies in the center of the basin (Paraguay-southern Brazil-Uruguay-northern Argentina) typical of the canonical ENSO teleconnection pattern. Our major findings clearly highlight a positive trend in yearly averaged PTPI mainly from the late 1960s to the early 1980s with a strong dependence from month-to-month. The largest precipitation increase is observed from November to May in southern Brazil and Argentina. A close examination of PTPI distributions during the two halves of the period 1950-2001 shows that the changes in the mean state from 1950-1975 to 1976-2001 result from significant changes in each calendar month mean state and in the tails of the PTPI anomaly distributions in May with lesser and weaker large-scale dry events and stronger large-scale wet events. Further studies will be needed to assess whether the observed trend in large-scale extreme precipitation conditions can be related to natural climate variability or anthropogenic activities and whether it is associated to changes in local/regional extreme events. The stronger wet conditions in different months seem to be associated to changes in ENSO characteristics (amplitude, propagation, spatial structure, ...) since the 1982-1983 El Niño. Indeed, spatial ENSO teleconnections (stronger in November and April-May) have greatly evolved from 1950-1975 to 1976-2001. Moreover, we demonstrate that there is a strong modulation and displacement of the teleconnection patterns from one event to another, impeding the definition of robust statistical relationship between ENSO and precipitation in the Paraná-Plata basin (except maybe over a very limited area near the common border between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil). Finally, the non-antisymmetrical patterns of precipitation between El Niño and La Niña conditions and the non-linear relationship between precipitation and either Niño3.4 or Niño1+2 sea surface temperature indices show that linear statistical forecast systems are actually of very limited use for impact predictions on society on a local or regional scale. © Springer-Verlag 2005.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Observed precipitation in the Paraná-Plata hydrological basin: Long-term trends, extreme conditions and ENSO teleconnections
Autor:Boulanger, J.-P.; Leloup, J.; Penalba, O.; Rusticucci, M.; Lafon, F.; Vargas, W.
Filiación:LODYC, UMR CNRS/IRD/UPMC, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Depto. de Cie. de la Atmos./Oceanos, Fac. de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Palabras clave:El Nino-Southern Oscillation; precipitation (climatology); Parana Basin; South America; Western Hemisphere; World
Año:2005
Volumen:24
Número:4
Página de inicio:393
Página de fin:413
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-004-0514-x
Título revista:Climate Dynamics
Título revista abreviado:Clim. Dyn.
ISSN:09307575
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_09307575_v24_n4_p393_Boulanger

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Citas:

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Boulanger, J.-P., Leloup, J., Penalba, O., Rusticucci, M., Lafon, F. & Vargas, W. (2005) . Observed precipitation in the Paraná-Plata hydrological basin: Long-term trends, extreme conditions and ENSO teleconnections. Climate Dynamics, 24(4), 393-413.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-004-0514-x
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Boulanger, J.-P., Leloup, J., Penalba, O., Rusticucci, M., Lafon, F., Vargas, W. "Observed precipitation in the Paraná-Plata hydrological basin: Long-term trends, extreme conditions and ENSO teleconnections" . Climate Dynamics 24, no. 4 (2005) : 393-413.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-004-0514-x
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Boulanger, J.-P., Leloup, J., Penalba, O., Rusticucci, M., Lafon, F., Vargas, W. "Observed precipitation in the Paraná-Plata hydrological basin: Long-term trends, extreme conditions and ENSO teleconnections" . Climate Dynamics, vol. 24, no. 4, 2005, pp. 393-413.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-004-0514-x
---------- VANCOUVER ----------
Boulanger, J.-P., Leloup, J., Penalba, O., Rusticucci, M., Lafon, F., Vargas, W. Observed precipitation in the Paraná-Plata hydrological basin: Long-term trends, extreme conditions and ENSO teleconnections. Clim. Dyn. 2005;24(4):393-413.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-004-0514-x