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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-59-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-59-2019
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01 Feb 2019
Research article |  | 01 Feb 2019

Climatological moisture sources for the Western North American Monsoon through a Lagrangian approach: their influence on precipitation intensity

Paulina Ordoñez, Raquel Nieto, Luis Gimeno, Pedro Ribera, David Gallego, Carlos Abraham Ochoa-Moya, and Arturo Ignacio Quintanar

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The identification of moisture sources for a region is of prominent importance regarding the characterization of precipitation. In this work, the moisture sources for the western North American monsoon (WNAM) region are identified; these sources are the Gulf of California, the WNAM itself, eastern Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. We find that rainfall intensity over the WNAM region is related to the amount of moisture transported from the Caribbean Sea and eastern Mexico during the preceding days.
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