Abstract
Abstract The relationships between rainfall over Uruguay (in southeastern South America) and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation phenomenon are investigated. Long time series of data from a dense network of rainfall stations are analyzed using an empirical method based on that proposed by Ropelewski and Halpert. The spatial patterns of the relationships and their temporal variability for the entire region and four subregions are studied in detail. It is found that years with El Nino events tend to have higher than average rainfall, especially from November to the next January. Further, years with high values of the Southern Oscillation index (501) tend to have lower than average rainfall, especially from October through December. These findings are in general agreement with previous studies. It is also found that the period from March through July tends to have higher than average rainfall after El Nino years and lower than average rainfall after high-SOI years. For the southern part of Uruguay, the wet anom...
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