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Mesoscale Convective Systems in Brazil
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 5th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society, Nov 1997, cp-299-00384
Abstract
Brazil is a country of many contrasts, meteorology being no exception. From the vast tropical region, including the Amazon rainforest and the drought prone areas of the Northeast, through the southern tip, in a midlatitude regime with occasional winter snowstorms, Brazilian weather is quite variable. Silva Dias (1989) presented a few examples of the mesoscale systems over South America, some of which have been the subject of a considerable research effort since then.A recent work by Mohr and Zipser (1996), using the SSMII 85 GHz ice scattering signature to describe the size and intensity of Mesoscale Convective Systems - MCS - observed during 1993, shows that convective storms are well spread over South America.