@Article{SatyamurtyCasTotGulMan:2010:RaTrBr,
               author = "Satyamurty, Prakki and Castro, Aline Anderson de and Tota, Julio 
                         and Gularte, Lucia Eliane da Silva and Manzi, Antonio Ocimar",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {} and {} 
                         and {} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amaz{\^o}nia 
                         (INPA)}",
                title = "Rainfall trends in the Brazilian Amazon Basin in the past eight 
                         decades",
              journal = "Theoretical and Applied Climatology",
                 year = "2010",
               volume = "99",
               number = "1-2",
                pages = "139--148",
                month = "jan",
             keywords = "climate, precipitation.",
             abstract = "Rainfall series at 18 stations along the major rivers of the 
                         Brazilian Amazon Basin, having data since 1920s or 1930s, are 
                         analyzed to verify if there are appreciable long-term trends. 
                         Annual, rainy-season, and dry-season rainfalls are individually 
                         analyzed for each station and for the region as a whole. Some 
                         stations showed positive trends and some negative trends. The 
                         trends in the annual rainfall are significant at only six 
                         stations, five of which reporting increasing trends (Barcelos, 
                         Belem, Manaus, Rio Branco, and Soure stations) and just one 
                         (Itaituba station) reporting decreasing trend. The climatological 
                         values of rainfall before and after 1970 show significant 
                         differences at six stations (Barcelos, Belem, Benjamin Constant, 
                         Iaurete, Itaituba, and Soure). The region as a whole shows an 
                         insignificant and weak downward trend; therefore, we cannot affirm 
                         that the rainfall in the Brazilian Amazon basin is experiencing a 
                         significant change, except at a few individual stations. 
                         Subregions with upward and downward trends are interspersed in 
                         space from the far eastern Amazon to western Amazon. Most of the 
                         seasonal trends follow the annual trends, thus, indicating a 
                         certain consistency in the datasets and analysis.",
                  doi = "10.1007/s00704-009-0133-x",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-009-0133-x",
                 issn = "0177-798X",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "rainfall_Prakki.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "03 maio 2024"
}