The Greater Miami Chapter of the AMS presents
The (average) circulation associated with this phenomenon
is a bubble of high pressure rotating around the southwest flank
of the main Atlantic high, bringing a trade wind surge across
the Caribbean. I will present my working hypotheses for the
dynamics of this feature, which my students and I will be studying
intensively, beginning this fall. I hope to make this issue my
springboard into broader studies of Atlantic summer climate.
I am eager to hear local synoptic experience (live or by email).
The Central American region's mid-summer "drought"
Speaker : Dr. Brian Mapes, RSMAS/UMiami
Place : Media Room, NHC, FIU Campus
Date : Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Time : 10:00 AM
A climatological minimum in rainfall in July-August is seen
at stations around Central America, including South Florida.
In Spanish, this is called the "veranillo" or "canicula". Free-
running GCMs do simulate this (if poorly), so it is a robust
feature of the Western Hemisphere tropical climate system.
There is also a small notch in hurricane climatology, ahead of
the main late-summer / fall season.