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HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES
卷 25, 期 8, 页码 1228-1242出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7889
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drought; Amazonia; hydrological response
资金
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico
- CNPq, Brazil
- Fapesp-Brazil
- MCT-Brazil
Severe hydrological droughts in the Amazon have generally been associated with strong El Nino events. More than 100 years of stage record at Manaus harbour confirms that minimum water levels generally coincide with intense warming in the tropical Pacific sea waters. During 2005, however, the Amazon experienced a severe drought which was not associated with an El Nino event. Unless what usually occurs during strong El Nino events, when negative rainfall anomalies usually affect central and eastern Amazon drainage basin; rainfall deficiencies in the drought of 2005 were spatially constrained to the west and southwest of the basin. In spite of this, discharge stations at the main-stem recorded minimum water levels as low as those observed during the basin-wide 1996-1997 El Nino-related drought. The analysis of river discharges along the main-stem and major tributaries during the drought of 2004-2005 revealed that the recession on major tributaries began almost simultaneously. This was not the case in the 1996-1997 drought, when above-normal contribution of some tributaries for a short period during high water was crucial to partially counterbalance high discharge deficits of the other tributaries. Since time-lagged contributions of major tributaries are fundamental to damp the extremes in the main-stem, an almost coincident recession in almost all tributaries caused a rapid decrease in water discharges during the 2005 event. Copyright. (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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