Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51127#.VFbQcWfHRK0 Author(s) Augusto J. Pereira Filho 1 , Richard E. Carbone 2 , John D. Tuttle 2 Affiliation(s) 1 University of São Paulo, Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil . 2 National Center for Atmospheric Research, Colorado, USA . ABSTRACT Hourly rainfall estimates from integrated satellite data are used to build a dynamically based climatology of convectively generated rainfall across the La Plata Basin in South America and adjacent oceans. Herein, the focus of this manuscript is on 20S to 35S, including the Andes cordillera. Emphasis is p...
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