@InProceedings{MarengoSanCasCamNob:2000:ChVaAt,
               author = "Marengo, Jos{\'e} Antonio and Sanches, Marcos Barbosa and Castro, 
                         Christopher Alexander Cunningham and Camargo Junior, H{\'e}lio 
                         and Nobre, Carlos Afonso",
          affiliation = "{Centro de Previs{\~a}o do Tempo e Estudos Clim{\'a}ticos - 
                         CPTEC/INPE}",
                title = "Characteristics and variability of the atmospheric water balance 
                         in the Amazon Basin",
            booktitle = "Anais...",
                 year = "2000",
                pages = "597--601",
         organization = "Congresso Brasileiro de Meteorologia, 11.",
            publisher = "SBMET",
             keywords = "climatologia.",
             abstract = "The water balance of the Amazon basin is of great importance, due 
                         to the presence of the world’s largest hydrographic system. Hence, 
                         there is a concern that large-scale land use changes may change 
                         significantly the flow regimes of rivers within the region and the 
                         land-atmosphere exchange of moisture, as well as the moisture 
                         fluxes from the basin to other regions of South America. This 
                         paper describes a research effort to estimate the atmospheric 
                         water balance of the Amazon basin, as a whole and by regions, 
                         using the NCEP reanalysis, and the network of river and rainfall 
                         data in the region. Quantifications are made for the near-surface 
                         moisture input from the North Atlantic into the Northern Amazon, 
                         from the Northern Amazon into the southern part of the basin, and 
                         from the basin to adjacent regions outside the basin, such as 
                         central and Southern Brazil-Northern Argentina-Southern Brazil. 
                         Preliminary results indicate the presence of decadal variability 
                         in rainfall and moisture transport especially in the northern 
                         parts of the basin, the effects of ENSO, and a long-term trend 
                         that seems to be due to both natural and human induced climate 
                         variability",
  conference-location = "Rio de Janeiro (RJ)",
      conference-year = "16-20 out. 2000",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
             language = "pt",
           targetfile = "Marengo_Characteristics.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "09 maio 2024"
}