Concurrent climate impacts of tropical South America land-cover change

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 261-267

  Hirota, Marina ^a   Oyama, Marcos Daisuke ^b   Nobre, Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE AERONÁUTICA E ESPAÇO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

AGCM simulation; Amazonia; Biomes; Land cover change; Northeast brazil

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DESERTIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SAVANNA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

EID: 79960508927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.329     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Costa MH, Pires, GF. 2010. Effects of Amazon and Central Brazil deforestation scenarios on the duration of the dry season in the arc of deforestation. International Journal of Climatology 30(13): 1970-1979. DOI: 10.1002/joc.2048.
2. D'Almeida C, Vörösmarty CJ, Hurtt G, Marengo JA, Dingman SL, Keim B. 2007. The effects of deforestation on the hydrological cycle in Amazonia: a review on scale and resolution. International Journal of Climatology 27: 633-647.
3. Dickinson RE, Henderson-Sellers A. 1988. Modeling tropical deforestation: a study of GCM land-surface parameterizations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 114: 439-462.
4. Dirmeyer PA, Shukla J. 1996. The effect on regional and global climate of expansion of the world's deserts. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 122: 451-482.
5. Gillett NP, Wehner MF, Tett SFB, Weaver AJ. 2004. Testing the linearity of the response to combined greenhouse gas and sulfate aerosol forcing. Geophysical Research Letters 31: L14201. DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020111.
6. Gonçalves DM. 2007. Future scenarios of land use change and environmental degradation in the semi-arid área of Northeast Brazil. Undergraduate degree dissertation (in Portuguese with Abstract in English). Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica: São José dos Campos, Brazil. (accessed 5 August 2010).
7. Henderson-Sellers A, Durbidge ATB, Pitman AJ, Dickinson RE, Kennedy PJ, McGuffie K. 1993. Tropical deforestation: modeling local- to regional-scale climate change. Journal of Geophysical Research 98: 7289-7315.
8. Hoffman RN, Kalnay E. 1983. Lagged average forecasting, an alternative to Monte Carlo forecasting. Tellus 35A: 100-118.
9. Hoffmann WA, Jackson RB. 2000. Vegetation-climate feedbacks in the conversion of tropical savanna to grassland. Journal of Climate 13: 1593-1602.
10. Lapola DM, Oyama MD, Nobre CA, Sampaio G. 2008. A new world natural vegetation map for global change studies. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 80: 397-408.
11. Ministerio do Meio Ambiente (MMA), Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Santana, MO. 2007. Atlas das áreas susceptíveis a desertificação do Brasil (in Portuguese). Brasilia, Brazil. (accessed 29 June 2009).
12. Nobre CA, Sellers PJ, Shukla J. 1991. Amazonian deforestation and regional climate change. Journal of Climate 4: 957-988.
13. Oliveira FP, Oyama MD. 2009. Radiosounding-derived convective parameters for the Alcantara Launch Center. Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management 1: 211-216.
14. Oyama MD, Nobre CA. 2004. Climatic consequences of a large-scale desertification in Northeast Brazil: a GCM simulation study. Journal of Climate 17: 3230-3213.
15. Oyama MD, Rocha EJP, Nobre CA. 2000. Estudo preliminar sobre o tempo de spin up da umidade do solo no modelo climático do CPTEC (in Portuguese). Proceedings of the 11th Brazilian Meteorology Congress. Sociedade Brasileira de Meteorologia: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
16. Ramos da Silva RR, Werth D, Avissar R. 2008. Regional impacts of future land-cover changes on the Amazon Basin wet-season climate. Journal of Climate 21: 1153-1170.
17. Reynolds RW, Smith TM. 1994. Improved global sea surface temperature analyses using optimum interpolation. Journal of Climate 7: 929-948.
18. Rocha, EPJ. 2001. Balanço de umidade e influência de condições de contorno superficiais sobre a precipitação da Amazônia. PhD thesis (in Portuguese). INPE: São José dos Campos, Brazil.
19. Salazar LF, Nobre CA, Oyama MD. 2007. Climate change consequences on the biome distribution on tropical South America. Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029395.
20. Sampaio, G. 2008. Climatic consequences of gradual conversion of Amazonian tropical forest into degradaded pasture or soybean cropland: a GCM simulation study. PhD thesis (in Portuguese with Abstract in English). INPE: São José dos Campos, Brazil. @80/2008/02.28.17.17/doc/paginadeacesso.html (Accessed 5 August 2010).
21. Sampaio G, Nobre CA, Costa MH, Satyamurty P, Soares-Filho BS, Cardoso M. 2007. Regional climate change over eastern Amazonia caused by pasture and soybean cropland expansion. Geophysical Research Letters 34: L17709. DOI: 10.1029/2007GL03012.
22. Soares-Filho BS, Nepstad DC, Curran LM, Cerqueira GC, Garcia RA, Ramos CA, Voll E, McDonald A, Lefebvre P, Schlesinger P. 2006. Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin. Nature 440: 520-523.
23. Souza, SS. 2006. Regional climatic impacts of the vegetation change in the semi-arid of Northeast Brazil. PhD thesis (in Portuguese with Abstract in English). INPE: São José dos Campos, Brazil. @80/2006/06.12.13.47/doc/paginadeacesso.html (Accessed 5 August 2010).
24. Stein U, Alpert P. 1993. Factor separation in numerical simulations. Journal of Atmospheric Science 50: 2107-2115.
25. Sud YC, Walker GK, Kim JH, Liston GE, Sellers PJ, Lau WKM. 1996. Biogeophysical consequences of a tropical deforestation scenario: a GCM simulation study. Journal of Climate 9: 3225-3247.
26. Tarasova T, Fomim B. 2000. Solar radiation absorption due to water vapor: advanced broadband parametrizations. Journal of Applied Meteorology 39: 1947-1951.
27. Wallace J, Hobbs P. 2006. Atmospheric sciences-an introduction survey. Elsevier: London.
28. Werth D, Avissar R. 2002. The local and global effects of Amazon deforestation. Journal of Geophysical Research 107: 8087. DOI: 10.1029/2001JD000717.
29. Xie PP, Janowiak JE, Arkin PA. 2003. GPCP pentad precipitation analyses: an experimental dataset based on gauge observations and satellite estimates. Journal of Climate 16: 2197-2214.