Abstract
This Ph.D. Thesis addresses the influence that the sea surface temperature (SST) has on the tropical precipitation changes at time scales from one to several decades, which is typically referred to as decadal-to-multidecadal variability. Specifically, the focus of this work is on the effect on rainfall variability of the Sahel in West Africa and the Amazon and the Northeast of Brazil in South America. This Chapter begins with a brief explanation of the motivation of this study. Thereafter, some basic concepts are introduced to enter upon the subject, such as the global climate system, the main mechanisms that govern it and its variability. Then, the main modes of low-frequency SST variability and the mechanisms leading the tropical rainfall in the regions of interest are explained in detail. The last section of this Chapter is dedicated to review the research done on the relationship between the SST and the Sahel, the Amazon and the Northeast of Brazil precipitation low-frequency variability.
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Also referred to as Nordeste in the literature.
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The coupled GCMs are also usually referred to as CGCMs or AOGCMs, because of the coupling between an AGCM and an OGCM. In this Thesis the acronym GCM is used to refer by default to the coupled GCMs.
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This method determines the multivariate noise from observed variations of the Pacific SST, assuming that the Pacific variability is determined by stochastic forcing.
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