@Article{ZaninSaty:2020:CrRe,
               author = "Zanin, Paulo Rodrigo and Satyamurty, Prakki",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amaz{\^o}nia (INPA)} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Hydrological processes interconnecting the two largest watersheds 
                         of South America from seasonal to intra-monthly time scales: a 
                         critical review",
              journal = "International Journal of Climatology",
                 year = "2020",
               volume = "40",
               number = "9",
                pages = "3971--4005",
                month = "July",
             keywords = "Amazon Basin, hydrological memory, low-level jet, Plata Basin, 
                         South Atlantic Convergence Zone.",
             abstract = "Many articles on the subjects of moisture transport, precipitation 
                         and surface hydrology of the two largest watersheds of South 
                         America, the Amazon and the La Plata basins, are stitched together 
                         to obtain an overview of the aspects related to the hydrological 
                         processes interconnecting them on time scales ranging from 
                         seasonal to intra-monthly. In the mean, moisture from the tropical 
                         Atlantic Ocean is transported by the trade winds into the Amazon 
                         Basin. A good part of it precipitates over the Amazon Basin and 
                         the other part reaches the La Plata Basin by northerly winds east 
                         of the Andes. Besides the moisture transported from the Atlantic, 
                         there is evapotranspiration in the Amazon and La Plata basins. A 
                         part of the evapotranspiration of the Amazon Basin precipitates 
                         over the same basin, contributing with about 1/3 of annual 
                         precipitation this basin, and a part joins the aerial stream into 
                         the La Plata Basin, contributing with about 1/4 of its annual 
                         precipitation. Semi-permanent and transient meteorological systems 
                         such as Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone, South Atlantic 
                         Convergence Zone, Low-Level Jet (LLJ) east of the Andes, 
                         Madden-Julian Oscillation, cold fronts and cyclones play an 
                         important role in the seasonal and intra-seasonal variations of 
                         precipitation, evapotranspiration and river discharge. The 
                         hydrological memory in Amazonian soils and the LLJ constitute an 
                         inter-seasonal coupling between the water balances of the two 
                         basins. All these aspects are succinctly described and discussed 
                         in this review article. Hypotheses for future research are 
                         formulated.",
                  doi = "10.1002/joc.6443",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.6443",
                 issn = "0899-8418",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "zanin_hydrological1.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "27 abr. 2024"
}