Theoretical impact of changing albedo on precipitation at the southernmost boundary of the ITCZ in South America

Earth Interactions

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1-14

  Doughty, Christopher E ^a   Loarie, Scott R ^b   Field, Christopher B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Amazon; ITCZ; South America; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864826526     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2012EI422.1     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Avissar, R., and D. Werth, 2005: Global hydroclimatological teleconnections resulting from tropical deforestation. J. Hydrometeor., 6, 134-145.
2. Baker, P. A., 2001: The history of South American tropical precipitation for the past 25,000 years. Science, 291, 640-643.
3. Bala, G., K. Caldeira, M. Wickett, T. J. Phillips, D. B. Lobell, C. Delire, and A. Mirin, 2007: Combined climate and carbon-cycle effects of large-scale deforestation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104, 6550-6555.
4. Berbert, M. L. C., and M. H. Costa, 2003: Climate change after tropical deforestation: Seasonal variability of surface albedo and its effects on precipitation change. J. Climate, 16, 2099-2104.
5. Broccoli, A. J., K. A. Dahl, and R. J. Stouffer, 2006: Response of the ITCZ to Northern Hemisphere cooling. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L01702, doi:10.1029/2005GL024546.
6. Canadell, J. G., and M. R. Raupach, 2008: Managing forests for climate change mitigation. Science, 320, 1456-1457.
7. Charney, J. G., 1975: Dynamics of deserts and drought in Sahel. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 101, 193-202.
8. Chiang, J. C. H., and C. M. Bitz, 2005: Influence of high latitude ice cover on the marine intertropical convergence zone. Climate Dyn., 25, 477-496.
9. Collins, W. D., 2006: The Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3). J. Climate, 19, 2122-2143.
10. Costa, M. H., S. N. M. Yanagi, P. J. O. P. Souza, A. Ribeiro, and E. J. P. Rocha, 2007: Climate change in Amazonia caused by soybean cropland expansion, as compared to caused by pastureland expansion. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L07706, doi:10.1029/2007GL029271.
11. Cruz, F. W., 2005: Insolation-driven changes in atmospheric circulation over the past 116,000 years in subtropical Brazil. Nature, 434, 63-66.
12. D'Almeida, C., C. J. Vorosmarty, G. C. Hurtt, J. A. Marengo, S. L. Dingman, and B. D. Keim, 2007: The effects of deforestation on the hydrological cycle in Amazonia: A review on scale and resolution. Int. J. Climatol., 27, 633-647.
13. Dickinson, R. E., and A. Henderson-Sellers, 1988: Modeling tropical deforestation-A study of GCM land surface parametrizations. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 114, 439-462.
14. Dirmeyer, P. A., and J. Shukla, 1994: Albedo as a modulator of climate response to tropical deforestation. J. Geophys. Res., 99 (D10), 20 863-20 877.
15. Goulden, M. L., S. D. Miller, H. R. da Rocha, M. C. Menton, H. C. de Freitas, A. M. E. S. Figueira, and C. A. D. de Sousa, 2004: Diel and seasonal patterns of tropical forest CO2 exchange. Ecol. Appl., 14, S42-S54.
16. Henderson-Sellers, A., R. E. Dickinson, and M. F. Wilson, 1988: Tropical deforestation-Important processes for climate models. Climatic Change, 13, 43-67.
17. Juang, J.-Y., G. Katul, M. Siqueira, P. Stoy, and K. Novick, 2007: Separating the effects of albedo from eco-physiological changes on surface temperature along a successional chronosequence in the southeastern United States. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L21408, doi:10.1029/2007GL031296.
18. Kiehl, J. T., C. A. Shields, J. J. Hack, and W. D. Collins, 2006: The climate sensitivity of the Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3). J. Climate, 19, 2584-2596.
19. Loarie, S. R., D. B. Lobell, G. P. Asner, and C. B. Field, 2011: Land-cover and surface water change drive large albedo increases in South America. Earth Interact., 15. [Available online at http:// EarthInteractions.org.]
20. Malhi, Y., 2009: Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-changeinduced dieback of the Amazon rainforest. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 106, 20610-20615.
21. Maslin, M. A., 2008: Theoretical model for the control of Pleistocene moisture availability in the tropics: Combining independent movement of north and south boundaries of the ITCZ and precessional forcing. Proc. Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Amer. Geophys. Union, PP23C-1501.
22. Maslin, M. A., and S. J. Burns, 2000: Reconstruction of the Amazon Basin effective moisture availability over the past 14,000 years. Science, 290, 2285-2287.
23. Maslin, M. A., 2000: Palaeoreconstruction of the Amazon River freshwater and sediment discharge using sediments recovered at site 942 on the Amazon fan. J. Quat. Sci., 15, 419-434.
24. Mayle, F. E., R. Burbridge, and T. J. Killeen, 2000: Millennial-scale dynamics of southern Amazonian rain forests. Science, 290, 2291-2294.
25. Nepstad, D. C., 1994: The role of deep roots in the hydrological and carbon cycles of Amazonian forests and pastures. Nature, 372, 666-669.
26. Nobre, C. A., P. J. Sellers, and J. Shukla, 1991: Amazonian deforestation and regional climate change. J. Climate, 4, 957-988.
27. Nobre, P., and J. Shukla, 1996: Variations of sea surface temperature, wind stress, and rainfall over the tropical Atlantic and South America. J. Climate, 9, 2464-2479.
28. Phillips, O. L., 2009: Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest. Science, 323, 1344-1347.
29. Riehl, H., 1979: Climate and Weather in the Tropics. Academic Press, 611 pp.
30. Rotstayn, L. D., B. F. Ryan, and J. E. Penner, 2000: Precipitation changes in a GCM resulting from the indirect effects of anthropogenic aerosols. Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 3045-3048.
31. Soares, B. S., 2006: Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin. Nature, 440, 520-523.
32. Swann, A. L. S., I. Y. Fung, and J. C. H. Chiang, 2012: Mid-latitude afforestation shifts general circulation and tropical precipitation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 109, 712-716.
33. Zeng, X. B., 2001: Global vegetation root distribution for land modeling. J. Hydrometeor., 2, 525-530.