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Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-319-2019
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02 May 2019
Research article |  | 02 May 2019

Tracking the moisture transport from the Pacific towards Central and northern South America since the late 19th century

David Gallego, Ricardo García-Herrera, Francisco de Paula Gómez-Delgado, Paulina Ordoñez-Perez, and Pedro Ribera

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By analysing old wind direction observations taken aboard sailing ships, it has been possible to build an index quantifying the moisture transport from the equatorial Pacific into large areas of Central America and northern South America starting in the late 19th century. This transport is deeply related to a low-level jet known as the Choco jet. Our results suggest that the seasonal distribution of the precipitation associated with this transport could have changed over the time.
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