Modeling Interannual Variability Of The Amazon Hydroclimate by Medvigy et al. 2008

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What this paper tells us is that global climate models that do not adequately resolve such landscape features as the Andes cannot accurately simulate climate variability even on seasonal time scales in the Amazon. The obvious conclusion with respect to multi-decadal global climate predictions is that skillful regional projections of climate change due to human climate forcings are also not possible until global models accurately include such terrain features as the Andes.