{"id":470,"date":"2021-04-07T22:56:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T22:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kyle-mattingly\/?page_id=470"},"modified":"2021-04-13T20:10:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T20:10:56","slug":"subtropical-south-america","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kyle-mattingly\/research\/subtropical-south-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Subtropical South America"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Hydroclimate of subtropical South America<\/h3>\n<p>The La Plata basin of subtropical South America\u2014encompassing parts of Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay\u2014experiences frequent occurrences of large, organized thunderstorm complexes during the warm season. These \u201cmesoscale convective systems\u201d provide much of the region\u2019s precipitation and can also produce hazards such as flooding, hail, strong winds, and tornadoes. My colleagues and I have found that the development of these thunderstorm complexes is favored by moisture advection from the Amazon and the South Atlantic Ocean. We have also described an out-of-phase relationship between organized convection over the La Plata basin and precipitation in the South Atlantic Convergence Zone of coastal Brazil, with implications for water supplies in the region\u2019s major population centers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_509\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-509\" style=\"width: 694px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kyle-mattingly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/656\/2021\/04\/MM17_fig_3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-509\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kyle-mattingly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/656\/2021\/04\/MM17_fig_3-1024x903.png\" alt=\"Mesoscale convective system example\" width=\"694\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kyle-mattingly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/656\/2021\/04\/MM17_fig_3-1024x903.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kyle-mattingly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/656\/2021\/04\/MM17_fig_3-300x265.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kyle-mattingly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/656\/2021\/04\/MM17_fig_3-768x678.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kyle-mattingly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/656\/2021\/04\/MM17_fig_3-1536x1355.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kyle-mattingly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/656\/2021\/04\/MM17_fig_3-2048x1807.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lower-tropospheric (left) and upper-tropospheric (right) conditions during example mesoscale convective system (top) and South Atlantic Convergence Zone (bottom) events.<br \/>From <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00382-016-3072-0\">Mattingly and Mote 2017<\/a>, <em>Climate Dynamics<\/em>. Reprinted by permission from Springer Nature, Copyright 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-508\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kyle-mattingly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/656\/2021\/04\/Mor20_fig_4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-508\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kyle-mattingly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/656\/2021\/04\/Mor20_fig_4-1024x565.png\" alt=\"Southern Brazil MCS conditions\" width=\"850\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kyle-mattingly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/656\/2021\/04\/Mor20_fig_4-1024x565.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kyle-mattingly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/656\/2021\/04\/Mor20_fig_4-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kyle-mattingly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/656\/2021\/04\/Mor20_fig_4-768x424.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kyle-mattingly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/656\/2021\/04\/Mor20_fig_4-1536x848.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/kyle-mattingly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/656\/2021\/04\/Mor20_fig_4-2048x1130.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lower-tropospheric conditions (850 hPa wind and relative humidity, 1000\u2013700 hPa integrated water vapor transport) for mesoscale convective systems in southern Brazil. Left panel shows events associated with the first principal component of 850 hPa geopotential height, right panel shows second principal component events.<br \/>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.int-res.com\/abstracts\/cr\/v80\/n1\/p43-58\/\">Moraes et al. 2020<\/a>, <em>Climate Research<\/em>. Reproduced by permission of Inter-Research, \u00a9 Inter-Research 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<h4>Read more:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00382-016-3072-0\">Mattingly and Mote, 2017<\/a> (<em>Climate Dynamics<\/em>): Variability in warm-season atmospheric circulation and precipitation patterns over subtropical South America: relationships between the South Atlantic Convergence Zone and large-scale organized convection over the La Plata basin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.int-res.com\/abstracts\/cr\/v80\/n1\/p43-58\/\">Moraes et al., 2020<\/a> (<em>Climate Research<\/em>): Atmospheric characteristics favorable to the development of Mesoscale Convective Complexes in southern Brazil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydroclimate of subtropical South America The La Plata basin of subtropical South America\u2014encompassing parts of Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay\u2014experiences frequent occurrences of large, organized thunderstorm complexes during the &hellip; 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