Agricultural expansion dominates climate changes in southeastern Amazonia: The overlooked non-GHG forcing

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Silvério, Divino V ^a,b   Brando, Paulo M ^b,c,d   Macedo, Marcia N ^d   Beck, Pieter S A ^e   Bustamante, Mercedes ^a   Coe, Michael T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

arc of deforestation; energy partitioning; heat flux; land use change; latent heat flux; rainforest

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION; CROPS; DEFORESTATION; ENERGY BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; LATENT HEAT;

AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION; ENERGY PARTITIONING; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LAND-USE CHANGE; RAINFOREST; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SPATIAL TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL DEFORESTATION;

HEAT FLUX;

AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DEFORESTATION; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAND USE CHANGE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; RAINFOREST; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84959469088     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/10/104015     Document Type: Article

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