@ElectronicSource{VeraBDEMMNNPPSSSSZ:2006:SoAmLo,
abstract = "A continental-scale gyre over South America transports moisture
westward from the tropical Atlantic Ocean to the Amazon Basin, and
then southward towards the extratropics. A regional
intensification of this gyre circulation to the east of the Andes
Mountains is called the South American Low-Level Jet (SALLJ), with
strongest winds over eastern Bolivia. The SALLJ is present all
year, and channels moisture to the La Plata Basin, which is
analogous to the better-known Amazon Basin in terms of its
biological and habitat diversity, and far exceeds the latter in
its economic importance to southern and central South America in
terms of hydroelectricity and food production. The relatively
small SALLJ spatial scale (compared with the density of the
available sounding network) has limited understanding and modeling
of any variations in the SALLJ intensity and structure as well as
its possible relationship to downstream rainfall. The SALLJ
Experiment (SALLJEX), aimed at describing many aspects of the
SALLJ, was carried out between 15 Nov 2002 and 15 Feb 2003 in
Bolivia, Paraguay, central and northern Argentina, western Brazil,
and Peru. Scientists, collaborators, students, National
Meteorological Service personnel and local volunteers from the
South American countries and the USA participated in SALLJEX
activities in an unprecedented way, as the SALLJEX was the most
extensive meteorological field activity to date in subtropical
South America, first WCRP/CLIVAR international campaign in South
America. This paper describes the motivation for a field activity
in the region, the special SALLJEX observations, and SALLJEX
modeling and outreach activities. We also describe some
preliminary scientific conclusions and discuss some of the
remaining questions.",
address = "S{\~a}o Jos{\'e} dos Campos",
affiliation = "{} and {} and {} and {} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas
Espaciais (INPE)}",
author = "Vera, Carolina and Baez, J. and Douglas, M. and Emmanuel, C. B.
and Marengo, Jose Antonio and Meitin, J. and Nicolini, Matilde and
Nogues-Paegle, J. and Paegle, J. and Penalba, O. and Salio, P. and
Saulo, C. and Silva Dias, Maria Assuncao Faus da and Silva Dias,
Pedro and Zipser, E.",
keywords = "SALLJEX.",
lastupdatedate = "2005-05-11",
note = "{Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society}",
publisher = "Instituto and Nacional and de and Pesquisas and Espaciais",
ibi = "6qtX3pFwXQZQjxQKY/G79RS",
url = "http://urlib.net/ibi/6qtX3pFwXQZQjxQKY/G79RS",
targetfile = "v1.pdf",
title = "The South American Low-Level Jet Experiment (Salljex)",
typeofmedium = "On-line",
year = "2006",
urlaccessdate = "02 maio 2024"
}