Abstract: The most common procedures to prewhite a climatological time series are considered and compared with those based on Fourier analysis. In particular, advantages and shortcomings of the anomaly method and the seasonal ...

Abstract: Many parts of the world are currently suffering water shortages. Few areas, however, have as little precipitation and groundwater available to alleviate the problem as does the northern coast of Chile. The historical ...

Abstract: A cutoff low (COL) pressure system that occurred in March 2005 (late austral summer) over the subtropical southeast Pacific is examined by means of numerical simulations using the Weather and Research Forecasting (WRF) ...

Abstract: The typical conditions of the eastern boundary of the subtropical anticyclone [e.g., well-defined marine boundary layer (MBL), equatorward low-level flow] that prevail along the mountainous west coast of subtropical South ...