Sessions in which Daniela Granato participates
Tuesday 28 June, 2022
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:30
13:30 -
15:00 |
1 hour 30 minutes
Proxy and historical evidence for rainfall extremes in the Amazon and northeastern Brazil, 1790-1900
13:30 -
13:45 |
15 minutes
Historical accounts in the Brazilian Digital Library provide independent support for most of the tree-ring reconstructed wet season rainfall extremes in the eastern Amazon during the late-18th and 19th centuries. Newspapers, government reports, and other documents describe crop failure, livestock mortality, water shortages, and ship groundings on the Amazon River during many of the tree-ring reconstructed drought extremes. Heavy rains and flooding are described during some of the wet extre...