Tropospheric temperature control and its effect on precipitation on the northern coast of Peru

José Obregón1,2, Ken Takahashi3, Fiorela Castillón Lucas1,4, Pedro Rau1, Daniel Vicente Horna Munoz1 and Eli Tziperman5, (1)Water Research and Technology Centre CITA, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología UTEC, Lima, Peru, Lima, Peru, (2)Department of Physics, Meteorology and Environmental Engineering, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina UNALM, Lima, Peru, Lima, Peru, (3)Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología, Lima, Peru, (4)Department of Physics, Meteorology and Environmental Engineering, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina UNALM, Lima, Peru., Lima, Peru, (5)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA., Cambridge, MA, United States