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TROPOSPHERIC WIND MEASUREMENTS WITH THE PIURABOUNDARY LAYER RADAR DURING EXTREME RAINFALLEVENTS IN 2002Ken Takahashi G.Centro de Predicción Numérica del Tiempo y ClimaInstituto Geofísico del Perú1. Introduction.The lowlands of Piura, on the northern coast of Peru, are strongly affected by El Niñoevents. Heavy rainfall can occur on this normally arid region when the nearby sea surfacetemperature (SST) is sufficiently high. Woodman [1999] has shown that rainfall can beexpected when SST exceeds a threshold of around 26°C. However, his analysis was done <strong>with</strong>monthly rainfall while heavy rainfall tends to occur in intense discrete events. In this work wetry to determine which conditions favor some days over others <strong>with</strong> the occurrence of heavyrainfall given essentially the same SST conditions.Our study was done for the period of March and April 2002. In this period, SST wasfavorable for rainfall, exceeding 26°C from the end of February to mid April at a locationsouth of Piura (6.5°S, 82.5°W), which Woodman [1999] highlighted as one <strong>with</strong> goodcorrelation <strong>with</strong> rainfall. Pluviometric station and river discharge data corroborate that rainfalldid occur in this period only.Figure 1: Region of study. Terrain elevation (m) is shown in shading, rivers are indicated in blue and datalocations <strong>with</strong> red triangles. River basin boundaries are indicated in green.286

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