Severe Weather Events over Southeastern Brazil during the 2016 Dry Season by Amanda Rehbein, Lívia Márcia Mosso Dutra, Tercio Ambrizzi, Rosmeri Porfírio da Rocha, Michelle Simões Reboita, Gyrlene Aparecida Mendes da Silva, Luiz Felippe Gozzo, Ana Carolina Nóbile Tomaziello, José Leandro Pereira Silveira Campos, Victor Raul Chavez Mayta, Natália Machado Crespo, Paola Gimenes Bueno, Vannia Jaqueline Aliaga Nestares, Laís Tabosa Machado, Eduardo Marcos De Jesus, Luana Albertani Pampuch, Maria de Souza Custódio, Camila Bertoletti Carpenedo

“…The convective systems were embedded in an unstable environment with intense low-level jet flow and strong wind shear and were supported by a sequence of extratropical cyclones occurring over the Southwest Atlantic Ocean. These features were intensified by the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) in its phase 8 and by intense negative values of the Pacific South America (PSA) 2 mode.…”
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