@InProceedings{MarengoCornSatyNobr:1996:TrCaWi,
               author = "Marengo, Jose Antonio and Cornejo, Angel G. and Satyamurty, Prakki 
                         and Nobre, Carlos Afonso",
          affiliation = "{CPTEC-INPE-Cachoeira Paulista-12630-000-SP-Brasil}",
                title = "Cold surges in the tropical and extra tropical South America. Tree 
                         cases of winter of 1994",
            booktitle = "Anais...",
                 year = "1996",
                pages = "1337--1340",
         organization = "Congresso Brasiieiro de Meteorologia, 9.",
             abstract = "We investigate the surges of polar air that occasionally propagate 
                         into southeastern Brazil during winter time and are '{"} harmful 
                         to coffee production because of the freezing conditions related to 
                         them. The cooling is also felt in southern and with less intensity 
                         in the western Amazonia. We study three events of the winter of 
                         1994: 26 June. 9 July and 4 August. These frost events caused a 
                         sharp drop in the coffee production and similarly dramatic 
                         increases in the world coffee prices. We performe an study of 
                         synoptic and climatic aspects of these cold surges episodes by 
                         using daily surface climatic observations for the June case study 
                         and an analysis the dynamic aspects of this cold episode and to 
                         study the cooling mechanisms by using the 4-times a day surface 
                         and upper-air NCEP/NCAR reanalysis, in arder to look for possible 
                         predictors.",
  conference-location = "Campos do Jord{\~a}o",
      conference-year = "3-6 nov.",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
             language = "en",
         organisation = "SBMET",
           targetfile = "11177.pdf",
               volume = "2",
        urlaccessdate = "03 maio 2024"
}