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Research article
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01 Feb 2019
Research article |
| 01 Feb 2019
| 01 Feb 2019
Climatological moisture sources for the Western North American Monsoon through a Lagrangian approach: their influence on precipitation intensity
Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
Raquel Nieto
Environmental Physics Laboratory (EphysLab), Universidade de Vigo, Ourense, 32004, Spain
Luis Gimeno
Environmental Physics Laboratory (EphysLab), Universidade de Vigo, Ourense, 32004, Spain
Pedro Ribera
Departamento de Sistemas Físicos, Químicos y Naturales, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, 41013, Spain
David Gallego
Departamento de Sistemas Físicos, Químicos y Naturales, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, 41013, Spain
Carlos Abraham Ochoa-Moya
Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
Arturo Ignacio Quintanar
Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
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Short summary
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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