Predicting the oceanic input of organic carbon by continental erosion

W Ludwig, JL Probst, S Kempe - Global Biogeochemical …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
For a large set of major world rivers we established the empirical relations existing between
the observed organic carbon fluxes and the climatic, biologic, and geomorphologic patterns …

Tropical rivers

EM Latrubesse, JC Stevaux, R Sinha - Geomorphology, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper presents an overview of tropical river systems around the world and identifies
major knowledge gaps. We focus particularly on the rivers draining the wet and wet–dry …

Global characteristics of stream flow seasonality and variability

MD Dettinger, HF Diaz - Journal of hydrometeorology, 2000 - journals.ametsoc.org
Monthly stream flow series from 1345 sites around the world are used to characterize
geographic differences in the seasonality and year-to-year variability of stream flow. Stream …

ENSO and the natural variability in the flow of tropical rivers

KN Amarasekera, RF Lee, ER Williams, EAB Eltahir - Journal of Hydrology, 1997 - Elsevier
This paper examines the relationship between the annual discharges of the Amazon,
Congo, Paran á, and Nile rivers and the sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies of the …

The Geochemistry of the Paranamp;# x00E1; River: An Overview

PJ Depetris, AI Pasquini - The middle Paraná River: limnology of a …, 2007 - Springer
River basins are not inert continental features. Moreover, it can be said that rivers have a life,
and their evolution is usually predictable. In biological terms, for example, rivers are …

An anoxic event and other biogeochemical effects of the Pantanal wetland on the Paraguay River

SK Hamilton, SJ Sippel, DÓF Calheiros… - Limnology and …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
The Paraguay River was sampled throughout the annual cycle at two sites located
downriver from most of the Pantanal, and major tributaries were occasionally sampled close …

[PDF][PDF] ENSO-controlled flooding in the Paraná River (1904–1991)

PJ Depetris, S Kempe, M Latif, WG Mook - Naturwissenschaften, 1996 - core.ac.uk
Fig. 3. Spectral analysis of the deseasonalized Paranfi discharge record, 1904 to 1991. A)
Coherence-squared spectrum between SST [13] and ParaM discharge data based on …

Variability in terrigenous sediment supply offshore of the Río de la Plata (Uruguay) recording the continental climatic history over the past 1200 years

L Perez, F García-Rodríguez, TJJ Hanebuth - Climate of the Past, 2016 - cp.copernicus.org
The continental shelf adjacent to the Río de la Plata (RdlP) exhibits extremely complex
hydrographic and ecological characteristics which are of great socioeconomic importance …

Former El Niño events: records from western South America

L Ortlieb, J Macharé - Global and Planetary Change, 1993 - Elsevier
The quasi-periodic alterations of the climate in South America and of the oceanographical
conditions in the eastern Pacific Ocean, referred to as the “El Niño” phenomenon, are part of …

Coupling physical and biogeochemical processes in the Rio de la Plata plume

M Huret, I Dadou, F Dumas, P Lazure… - Continental Shelf Research, 2005 - Elsevier
A coupled three-dimensional physical–biogeochemical model was developed in order to
simulate the ecological functioning of the Río de la Plata estuary and plume. The …