Tropical Atlantic Contributions to Strong Rainfall Variability Along the Northeast Brazilian Coast

Table 1

Years corresponding to the selected positive (bold) and negative (bold italic) rainfall anomalies with a threshold of ±0.5 at Fortaleza in March-April (MA) and at Recife in June-July (JJ).

FORTALEZA		RECIFE
Years	RAINA (MA)	Years	RAINA (JJ)
1974	+1.6	1974	−0.6
1975	+0.1	1975	+0.7
1976	+0.1	1976	−0.6
1977	−0.6	1977	+0.6
1978	−0.6	1978	+0.2
1979	−0.6	1979	−0.3
1980	−1.3	1980	−0.5
1981	0	1981	−1.2
1982	−0.8	1982	−0.1
1983	−0.9	1983	−1.2
1984	+0.2	1984	+0.4
1985	+1.5	1985	+0.6
1986	+2	1986	+0.6
1987	−0.3	1987	+0.4
1988	+0.1	1988	+0.7
1989	+0.1	1989	+0.7
1990	−1.2	1990	+0.8
1991	+0.6	1991	−0.6
1992	−0.8	1992	+0.3
1993	−0.9	1993	−0.9
1994	+0.5	1994	+0.7
1995	+1.3	1995	+0.3
1996	+0.8	1996	−0.4
1997	0	1997	−1.1
1998	−0.7	1998	−1.3
1999	−0.5	1999	−1.1
2000	−0.3	2000	+1.3
2001	+0.9	2001	+0.2
2002	+0.5	2002	+0.4
2003	+0.9	2003	+0.1
2004	−0.2	2004	+0.5
2005	−0.9	2005	+0.5
2006	−0.7	2006	−0.3
2007	−0.2	2007	0
2008	+0.1	2008	+0.1