doi:10.3390/atmos11030282engBravo-Paredes, NievesGallego, María CruzDomínguez-Castro, FernandoGarcía, José AgustínVaquero, José ManuelPro-Pluvia Rogation Ceremonies in Extremadura (Spain): Are They a Good Proxy of Winter NAO?ART-2020-116978Rogation ceremonies are religious requests to God. Pro-pluvia rogations were celebrated during dry conditions to ask God for rain. In this work, we have recovered 37 pro-pluvia rogations from 14 documentary sources (e.g., : ecclesiastical manuscripts, books, and different magazines and newspapers). All of the rogations were celebrated in Extremadura region (interior of southwest of Spain) during the period 1824-1931. Climate of Extremadura is strongly dominated by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Therefore, pro-pluvia rogations have been associated to the NAO index and the relationship between them has been analyzed. The most relevant results are found in the relationship between pro-pluvia rogations in month n and the positive values of the NAO index for months n-1 and n-2, being statistically significant at 95% confidence level. Thus, the results evidence that the rogation ceremonies of Extremadura are a good proxy for the NAO index.2020http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/15653010.3390/atmos11030282http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/156530oai:zaguan.unizar.es:156530info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CGL2017-83866-C3-1-Rinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CGL2017-87917-PAtmosphere 11, 3 (2020), 282 [15 pp.]byhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess