11 research outputs found
Validation of satellite rainfall products for operational flood forecasting: the case of the Evros catchment
Comparison of TRMM multi-satellite precipitation analysis (TMPA) estimation with ground-based precipitation data over Maharashtra, India
Satellite-borne detection of high diurnal amplitude of sea surface temperature in the seas west of the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, during Yamase wind season
Particle Fluxes and Bulk Geochemical Characterization of the Cabo Frio Upwelling System in Southeastern Brazil: Sediment Trap Experiments between Spring 2010 and Summer 2012
Performance evaluation of TMPA version 7 estimates for precipitation and its extremes in Circum-Bohai-Sea region, China
Sea breeze front identification on the northeastern coast of Brazil and its implications for meteorological conditions in the Sergipe region
Self-amplified Amazon forest loss due to vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks
Reduced rainfall increases the risk of forest dieback, while in return forest loss might intensify
regional droughts. The consequences of this vegetationâatmosphere feedback for the stability
of the Amazon forest are still unclear. Here we show that the risk of self-amplified Amazon
forest loss increases nonlinearly with dry-season intensification. We apply a novel complexnetwork
approach, in which Amazon forest patches are linked by observation-based
atmospheric water fluxes. Our results suggest that the risk of self-amplified forest loss is
reduced with increasing heterogeneity in the response of forest patches to reduced rainfall.
Under dry-season Amazonian rainfall reductions, comparable to Last Glacial Maximum
conditions, additional forest loss due to self-amplified effects occurs in 10â13% of the
Amazon basin. Although our findings do not indicate that the projected rainfall changes for
the end of the twenty-first century will lead to complete Amazon dieback, they suggest that
frequent extreme drought events have the potential to destabilize large parts of the Amazon
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