@InProceedings{LimaSatyFern:2009:SyChAs,
               author = "Lima, Kellen Carla and Satyamurty, Prakki and Fernandez, Julio 
                         Pablo Reyes",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Synoptic characteristics associated with heavy rainfall episodes 
                         in Southeast Brazil",
                 year = "2009",
         organization = "International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and 
                         Oceanography, 9.",
             keywords = "heavy rainfall, Southeastern Brazil.",
             abstract = "The Southeastern of Brazil (SEB) is an important region to the 
                         country, due the economy to have the largest development among the 
                         five Brazilian regions, where is concentrated more of the half of 
                         the national production. It is also, the region with the largest 
                         demographic density and the highest urbanization index. During the 
                         austral summer the SEB is affected by heavy rainfall episodes 
                         which are associated mainly with the presence of the South 
                         Atlantic Convergence Zone (SACZ). This atmospheric system is 
                         considered as one of the main phenomena responsible for 
                         intra-seasonal variability during the summer in South America and 
                         the main mechanism responsible for prolonged periods of heavy 
                         rainfall on the SEB. It is known that this system suffers 
                         influences so much of remote factors as locale. Among the places, 
                         Andes intensify aiding the feeding of the convergence with the 
                         humid air of the Amazonian (Figueroa et al., 1995).",
  conference-location = "Melbourne, Australia",
      conference-year = "9-13 feb.",
                label = "lattes: 3246339978224530 2 LimaSatyFern:2009:SyChAs",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "PTH_C13_Lima.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "02 maio 2024"
}