Climatic shift in patterns of shallow clouds over the Amazon

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Chagnon, F J F ^a   Bras, R L ^a   Wang, J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

0315 Atmospheric composition and structure: Biosphere atmosphere interactions; 1610 Global change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325); 1640 Global change: Remote sensing; 1655 Global change: Water cycles (1836); 1803 Hydrology: Anthropogenic effects

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; HYDROLOGY; RAIN; SATELLITES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ACTIVE DEFORESTATION; AMAZON RAIN FOREST; CLIMATIC SHIFTS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHALLOW CLOUDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD COVER; DEFORESTATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; RAINFOREST; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

CLIMATES; DEFORESTATION; FORESTS; HYDROLOGY; RAIN; ROUGHNESS; SATELLITES;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 14544280635     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021188     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Achard, F., H. D. Eva, H.-J. Stibig, P. Mayaux, J. Galllego, T. Richards, and J.-P. Malingreau (2002), Determination of deforestation rates of the world's humid tropical forests, Science, 297, 999-1002.
2. Andreae, M. O., D. Rosenfeld, P. Artaxo, A. A. Costa, G. P. Frank, K. M. Longo, and M. A. F. Silva-Dias (2004), Smoking rain clouds over the amazon, Science, 303, 1337-1342.
3. Anthes, R. A. (1984), Enhancement of convective precipitation by mesoscale variations in vegetative covering in semiarid regions, J. Clim. Appl. Meteorol, 23, 541-554.
4. Avissar, R., and Y. Liu (1996), Three-dimensional numerical study of shallow convective clouds and precipitation induced by land surface forcing, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 7499-7518.
5. Baidya Roy, S., and R. Avissar (2002), Impact of land use/land cover change on regional hydrometeorology in Amazonia, J. Geophys. Res., 107(D20), 8037, doi:10.1029/2000JD000266.
6. Charney, J., P. H. Stone, and W. J. Quirk (1975), Drought in the Sahara: A biogeophysical feedback mechanism, Science, 187, 434-435.
7. Chen F., and R. Avissar (1994), Impact of land-surface moisture variability on local shallow convective cumulus and precipitation in large-scale models, J. Appl. Meteorol., 33, 1382-1401.
8. Chen, J., B. E. Carlson, and A. D. Del Genio (2002), Evidence for strengthening of the tropical general circulation in the 1990s, Science, 295, 838-841.
9. Cutrim, E., D. W. Martin, and R. Rabin (1995), Enhancement of cumulus clouds over deforested lands in Amazonia, Bull. Am. Meteorol Soc., 76 1801-1805.
10. Durieux, L., L. A. T. Machado, and H. Laurent (2003), The impact of deforestation on cloud cover over the Amazon arc of deforestation, Remote Sens. Environ., 86, 132-140.
11. Hansen, M. C., R. S. DeFries, J. R. G. Townshend, M. Carroll, C. Dimiceli, and R. A. Sohlberg (2003), Global percent tree cover at a spatial resolution of 500 meters: First results of the modis vegetation continuous field algorithm, Earth Interactions, 7, 1-15.
12. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) (2003), Monitoring of the Brazilian Amazon forest by satellite 2001-2002, technical report, São José Dos Campos, Brazil.
13. Koren, I., Y. J. Kaufman, L. A. Remer, and J. V. Martins (2004), Measurement of the effect of Amazon smoke on inhibition of cloud formation, Science, 303, 1342-1345.
14. Minnis, P., W. L. Smith Jr., D. P. Garber, J. K. Ayers, and D. R. Doelling (1995), Cloud properties derived from GOES-7 for spring 1994 ARM intensive observing period using version 1.0.0 of ARM satellite data analysis program, NASA Ref Publ. 1366, 61 pp.
15. Minnis, P., L. Nguyen, D. R. Doelling, D. F. Young, W. F. Miller, and D. P. Kratz (2002), Rapid calibration of operational and research meteorological satellite imager. Part I: Evaluation of research satellite visible channels as references, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol, 19, 1233-1249.
16. Negri, A. J., R. F. Adler, L. Xu, and J. Surrat (2004), The impact of Amazonian deforestation on dry season rainfall, J. Clim., 17, 1306-1319.
17. Rabin, R. M., S. Stadler, P. J. Wetzel, D. J. Stensrud, and M. Gregory (1990), Observed effects of landscape variability on convective clouds, Bull. Am. Meteorol Soc., 71, 272-280.
18. Rossow, W. B., and L. C. Garder (1993), Cloud detection using satellite measurements of infrared and visible radiances for ISCCP, J. Clim., 6 2341-2369.
19. Salati, E., and P. B. Vose (1984), Amazon basin: A system in equilibrium, Science, 225, 129-138.
20. Shukla, J., C. Nobre, and P. Sellers (1990), Amazon deforestation and climate change, Science, 247, 1322-1325.
21. Suomi, V. E., R. Fox, S. S. Limaye, and W. L. Smith (1983), McIdas III: A modern interactive data access and analysis system, J. Clim. Appl. Meteorol., 22, 766-778.
22. Wang, J., E. A. B. Eltahir, and R. L. Bras (1998), Numerical simulations of nonlinear mesoscale circulations induced by the thermal heterogeneities of land surface, J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 447-464.
23. Wang, J., R. L. Bras, and E. A. B. Eltahir (2000), The impact of observed deforestation on the mesoscale distribution of rainfall and clouds in Amazonia, J. Hydrometeorol., 1, 267-286.
24. Wielicki, B. A., et al. (2002), Evidence for large decadal variability in the tropical mean radiative energy budget, Science, 295, 841-844.