Influencia del océano Atlántico tropical sobre el comportamiento de la primera parte de la estación lluviosa en Venezuela.

The Statistical Ocean Model System, based in Canonical Correlation Analysis, was used to study the relationships between the Tropical Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the precipitation anomalies in Venezuela for the first part of the rainy season during 1951-1995. The Tropical Atlantic Ocean had the main influence over the April-July (AMJJ) precipitation anomalies with annual cycles associated showing only one maximum in June, mainly. The atmospheric mechanism responsible for this oceanic modulation over the precipitation anomalies could be variations in the latitudinal position of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone.