2014
DOI: 10.5194/hessd-11-1023-2014
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The role of Amazon Basin moisture on the atmospheric branch of the hydrological cycle: a Lagrangian analysis

Abstract: Abstract. We used a Lagrangian model (FLEXPART) and the 1979–2012 ERA Interim reanalysis data to investigate the role of Amazon Basin moisture in the regional hydrological budget along the year. FLEXPART computes budgets of evaporation minus precipitation by calculating changes in the specific humidity along forward and backwards trajectories. The Tropical Atlantic (TA) is the major remote moisture source for Amazon Basin. Northern TA contributes during the Austral Summer mainly, while the contribution of sout… Show more

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“…Data obtained from ECMWF reanalysis ERA‐Interim (Dee et al , ), on a 1.5° × 1.5° grid, for the period March to November 1982–2009, were used to plot both the flux and its divergence anomalies for the periods of the extreme dry events for each homogeneous region. The Eulerian approach focuses on specific regions in space through which the fluid flows in time, so it is not possible to extract the link between the precipitation over a region and the moisture source (Gimeno et al , ; Drumond et al , ).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Data obtained from ECMWF reanalysis ERA‐Interim (Dee et al , ), on a 1.5° × 1.5° grid, for the period March to November 1982–2009, were used to plot both the flux and its divergence anomalies for the periods of the extreme dry events for each homogeneous region. The Eulerian approach focuses on specific regions in space through which the fluid flows in time, so it is not possible to extract the link between the precipitation over a region and the moisture source (Gimeno et al , ; Drumond et al , ).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition, moisture flux stream function (ψ Q )/potential (X Q ) and its non-divergent/divergent components are also used to diagnose precipitation changes. In addition, the moisture source for the Amazon basin is mainly from the North Atlantic in both wet and dry seasons (Satyamurty et al, 2013a(Satyamurty et al, , 2013bDrumond et al, 2014). The moisture transport from the North Atlantic is also used to diagnose precipitation change in this study.…”
Section: Physical Mechanismsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, such results of perfect closure are highly influenced by the methodologies employed when estimating evapotranspiration, with estimations that are mostly based on the precipitation product used in the closure calculations providing results that are not completely accurate due to dependence between data sets. The imbalance of the surface water budget found in the Amazon River basin (Marengo, ) has previously been addressed by other authors as a misrepresentation of the biological fluxes over the basin that may in turn affect the estimation of evapotranspiration (Drumond et al, ; Jasechko et al, ; Makarieva et al, ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%