Meteorological context of the onset and end of the rainy season in Central Amazonia during the GoAmazon2014/5

Marengo, Jose A.; Fisch, Gilberto F.; Alves, Lincoln M.; Sousa, Natanael V.; Fu, Rong; Zhuang, Yizhou

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-7671-2017

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Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/5)...

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26 Jun 2017

Research article |

| 26 Jun 2017

Meteorological context of the onset and end of the rainy season in Central Amazonia during the GoAmazon2014/5

Jose A. Marengo, Gilberto F. Fisch, Lincoln M. Alves, Natanael V. Sousa, Rong Fu, and Yizhou Zhuang

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'review of Marengo et a.', Anonymous Referee #1, 21 Feb 2017
- AC1: 'Response Reviewer 1', José Marengo, 01 Mar 2017
SC1: 'RC coment', Simone Ferraz, 22 Feb 2017
- SC2: 'Response Short Comment 1', José Marengo, 01 Mar 2017
- RC2: 'Referee comment', Simone Ferraz, 03 Mar 2017
  - SC3: 'Response to SC2 comment', José Marengo, 22 Mar 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by José Marengo on behalf of the Authors (20 Apr 2017) Manuscript

ED: Reconsider after minor revisions (Editor review) (01 May 2017) by Maria Assuncao Silva Dias

AR by José Marengo on behalf of the Authors (10 May 2017) Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (23 May 2017) by Maria Assuncao Silva Dias

AR by José Marengo on behalf of the Authors (25 May 2017) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

The onset and demise of the rainy season in Amazonia are assessed in this study using meteorological data from the GoAmazon experiment for the 2014–15 rainy season. The onset of the rainy season was strongly associated with changes in large-scale circulation in the region, and our analyses using regional thermodynamic indices suggest that local changes such the regional thermodynamic characteristics may have been less important on the occurrence of the onset compared to large-scale circulation.