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Meteorologica

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Abstract

CORONEL, Alejandra S.  and  CASTANEDA, María E.. Classification of air masses that affect the south of Santa Fe, their trajectories and the relationship between them to the the daily precipitation in January abstract. Meteorologica [online]. 2010, vol.35, n.1, pp.29-40. ISSN 1850-468X.

The aim of this work is to identify the air masses that affect the south of Santa Fe in January during 1998-2006 and to relate it to the daily precipitation, in Zavalla (33º01´S, 60º53´O). The analyzed daily information is: mean, maximum and minimum temperature, relative humidity, effective insolation, atmospheric pressure, precipitation and wind direction of the 8 and 14 hours. The fields of circulation and temperature in 1000 and 500 hPa, and specific humidity in 850 hPa, are calculated using NCEP Reanálisis data. Analysis of cluster k-means is applied and it determines four types of air masses: Warm Drought: a very warm air mass; Warm Humid: it increases the humidity and cloudiness, Moderate Dry: air mass with the smallest minimum temperatures; Moderate Humid: very humid air mass, daily losses thermal amplitude, associated to the previous conditions to the passage of cold fronts. The 50% of the precipitation days happen during Warm Humid masses and the 32% with Moderate Humid, and 93% of the most intense occurs during these masses. Moderate Humid have major efficiency in the precipitation occurrence because in 50% of the cases precipitates, and for Warm Humid only in 27%.

Keywords : Air masses; Backward trajectory; Daily rainfall; January.

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