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Variability of precipitation recycling and moisture sources over the Colombian Pacific Region: A precipitationshed approach

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Title Variability of precipitation recycling and moisture sources over the Colombian Pacific Region: A precipitationshed approach
 
Creator Enciso, Angelica
Baquero, Olga
Escobar, Daniel
Tapasco, Jeimar
Loaiza, Wilmar
 
Subject precipitation
evaporation
recycling of drainage water
precipitación atmosférica
evaporación
moisture conservation
 
Description This study assessed the precipitation recycling and moisture sources in the Colombian Pacific region between 1980–2017, based on the monitoring of moisture in the atmosphere through the
EulerianWater Accounting Model-2 layer (WAM2 layer) and the delimitation of the area contributing to terrestrial and oceanic moisture in the region is performed using the “precipitationshed” approach. The results indicate a unimodal precipitation recycling ratio for the North and Central Pacific and Patía-Mira regions, with the highest percentages between March and April, reaching 30% and 34%, respectively, and the lowest between September and October (between 19% and 21%). Moreover, monthly changes in the circulation of the region promote a remarkable variability of the sources that contribute to the precipitation of the study area and the spatial dynamics of the precipitationshed. From December to April, the main contributions come from continental sources in eastern Colombia and Venezuela, the tropical North Atlantic, and the Caribbean Sea, a period of high activity of the Orinoco Low-Level jet. In September, the moisture source region is located over the Pacific Ocean, where a southwesterly cross-equatorial circulation predominates, converging in western Colombia, known as the Choco Jet (CJ), decreasing the continental contribution. An intensified Caribbean Low-Level Jet inhibits moisture sources from the north between June and August, strengthening a southerly cross-equatorial flow from the Amazon River basin and the southeastern tropical Pacific. The March–April (September–October) season of higher (lower) recycling of continental precipitation is related to the weakening (strengthening) of the CJ in the first (second) half of the year, which decreases (increases) the contribution of moisture from the Pacific Ocean to the region, increasing (decreasing) the influence of land-based sources in the study area.
 
Date 2022-07-30
2022-08-03T10:10:20Z
2022-08-03T10:10:20Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Enciso, A.; Baquero, O.; Escobar, D.; Tapasco, J.; Loaiza, W. (2022) Variability of precipitation recycling and moisture sources over the Colombian Pacific Region: A precipitationshed approach. Atmosphere 13(8):1202. ISSN: 2073-4433
2073-4433
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120414
https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos1308120
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 18 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher MDPI
 
Source Atmosphere