@Article{SchumacherJustLeonPere:2022:DiRoPa,
               author = "Schumacher, Van{\'u}cia and Justino, Fl{\'a}vio and Leonardo, 
                         Noele F. and Pereira, Marcos P.",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and 
                         {Universidade Federal de Vi{\c{c}}osa (UFV)} and {Universidade 
                         Federal Fluminense (UFF)} and {Universidade Federal de Alagoas 
                         (UFAL)}",
                title = "Disentangling the role of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans during 
                         the Amazonian droughts in 2015",
              journal = "Theoretical and Applied Climatology",
                 year = "2022",
               volume = "148",
               number = "3/4",
                pages = "1057--1067",
                month = "May",
             abstract = "El Nino events lead to worldwide changes in the inter-annual 
                         variability of precipitation, and more in particular to South 
                         America droughts. In the year 2015, El Nino leads to extremely dry 
                         conditions over the Amazon Basin. Based upon climate simulations 
                         conducted with the CCM3-IBIS and SPEEDY-Vegas, coupled 
                         climate-vegetation models, the impacts of the 2015 Pacific and 
                         Atlantic SSTs on drought over the Amazon Basin are investigated. 
                         Our results demonstrated that the 2015 El Nino event does not 
                         solely is able to explain the reduction in precipitation; however, 
                         results show that the anomalous pattern of the Atlantic SST plays 
                         the main role in this particular drought event. Distinct results 
                         are delivered by the SPEEDY-Vegas, in which the Pacific Ocean 
                         plays the leading role in driving the anomalous pattern of 
                         precipitation. Dynamically, both models are consistent in 
                         providing the climate mechanisms related to the extreme event. 
                         Thus, the regional precipitation response is, therefore, tightly 
                         linked to the atmospheric model parameterization on its lowest 
                         boundary condition, which involves the air-sea interaction. The 
                         2015 drought presented important modifications in the dominant 
                         vegetation type over the Amazon Basin. This result indicates the 
                         high susceptibility of the Amazon Forest to become savanna-like 
                         vegetation if the occurrence of the 2015 SST patterns happens more 
                         frequently in the future.",
                  doi = "10.1007/s00704-022-03998-6",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-022-03998-6",
                 issn = "0177-798X",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "Schumacher2022_Article_DisentanglingTheRoleOfThePacif.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "25 jun. 2024"
}