This study shows that a weaker surface ocean current system produces colder coastal SST's along the Atlantic coast of Florida, thereby reducing the length and the
total seasonal accumulation of
rainfall in the wet season of Peninsular Florida relative to the simulation in which these currents are stronger.
This persistence of very high latent heat flux is opposite to the
seasonal trends of transpiration and evaporation in savannas, even with similar
total rainfall (Saleska et al., 2003; da Rocha et al., 2009).