Amazon River Discharge and Climate Variability: 1903 to 1985

• Published in: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 246; no. 4926; pp. 101 - 103
• Main Authors: Richey, Jeffrey E., Nobre, Carlos, Deser, Clara
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States The American Association for the Advancement of Science 06.10.1989; American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Subjects: Climate change; Climate models; El Nino; Freshwater; Geographic profiles; Marine; Oceans; Oscillation; Precipitation; River basins; Rivers; Southern oscillation; Water cycle; Amazon River; IS, Tropical Pacific; South America, Amazon R

Reconstruction of an 83-year record (1903 to 1985) of the discharge of the Amazon River shows that there has been no statistically significant change in discharge over the period of record and that the predominant interannual variability occurs on the 2- to 3-year time scale. Oscillations of river d...