Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Amplified seasonal cycle in hydroclimate over the Amazon river basin and its plume region

  • Yu-Chiao Liang,
  • Min-Hui Lo,
  • Chia-Wei Lan,
  • Hyodae Seo,
  • Caroline C. Ummenhofer,
  • Stephen Yeager,
  • Ren-Jie Wu,
  • John D. Steffen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18187-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The hydroclimatic variations of the Amazon River basin can exert profound impacts on the marine ecosystem in the Amazon plume region. Here the authors show that an amplified seasonal cycle of Amazonia precipitation during 1979–2018 leads to enhanced seasonality in both Amazon river discharge and ocean salinity.