Deforestation size influences rainfall

Jeffrey Q. Chambers () and Paulo Artaxo ()
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Jeffrey Q. Chambers: University of California Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Paulo Artaxo: Paulo Artaxo is at the Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-091, Brazil

Nature Climate Change, 2017, vol. 7, issue 3, 175-176

Abstract: Changes to the land surface, such as land clearing and logging of forest areas, impacts moisture cycling. Now a shift from small-scale to large-scale deforestation in the southern Amazon is found to modify the mechanisms and patterns of regional precipitation.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3238

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