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The effects of deforestation on the hydrological cycle in Amazonia: a review on scale and resolution

✍ Scribed by Cassiano D'Almeida; Charles J. Vörösmarty; George C. Hurtt; José A. Marengo; S. Lawrence Dingman; Barry D. Keim

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
400 KB
Volume
27
Category
Article
ISSN
0899-8418

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Abstract

This paper reviews the effects of deforestation on the hydrological cycle in Amazonia according to recent modeling and observational studies performed within different spatial scales and resolutions. The predictions that follow from future scenarios of a complete deforestation in the region point to a restrained water cycle, while the simulated effects of small, disturbed areas show a contrasting tendency. Differences between coarsely spatially averaged observations and finely sampled data sets have also been encountered. These contrasts are only partially explained by the different spatial resolutions among models and observations, since they seem to be further associated with the weakening of precipitation recycling under scenarios of extensive deforestation and with the potential intensification of convection over areas of land‐surface heterogeneity. Therefore, intrinsic and interrelated scale and heterogeneity dependencies on the impact of deforestation in Amazonia on the hydrological cycle are revealed and the acknowledgement of the relevance of these dependencies sets a few challenges for the future. Copyright © 2007 Royal Meteorological Society

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