Amazon hydrology from space: scientific advances and future challenges

AC Fassoni‐Andrade, AS Fleischmann… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate
and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing …

Modeling the terrestrial biosphere

JB Fisher, DN Huntzinger… - Annual review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The land surface comprises the smallest areal fraction of the Earth system's major
components (eg, versus atmosphere or ocean with cryosphere). As such, how is it that some …

Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests

J Wu, LP Albert, AP Lopes, N Restrepo-Coupe… - Science, 2016 - science.org
In evergreen tropical forests, the extent, magnitude, and controls on photosynthetic
seasonality are poorly resolved and inadequately represented in Earth system models …

Empirical evidence for resilience of tropical forest photosynthesis in a warmer world

MN Smith, TC Taylor, J van Haren, R Rosolem… - Nature Plants, 2020 - nature.com
Tropical forests may be vulnerable to climate change,–if photosynthetic carbon uptake
currently operates near a high temperature limit,–. Predicting tropical forest function requires …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of land cover change on evapotranspiration and streamflow of small catchments in the Upper Xingu River Basin, Central Brazil

LCP Dias, MN Macedo, MH Costa, MT Coe… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Study region Upper Xingu River Basin, southeastern Amazonia. Study focus This
study assessed the influence of land cover changes on evapotranspiration and streamflow …

Do dynamic global vegetation models capture the seasonality of carbon fluxes in the Amazon basin? A data‐model intercomparison

N Restrepo‐Coupe, NM Levine… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
To predict forest response to long‐term climate change with high confidence requires that
dynamic global vegetation models (DGVM s) be successfully tested against ecosystem …

Assessment of terrestrial water balance using remote sensing data in South America

AA Moreira, AL Ruhoff, DR Roberti… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study investigated the potential of assessing the water balance in South America, at
multiple scales, using satellite remote sensing precipitation and evapotranspiration datasets …

The fate of Amazonian ecosystems over the coming century arising from changes in climate, atmospheric CO2, and land use

K Zhang, AD de Almeida Castanho… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
There is considerable interest in understanding the fate of the Amazon over the coming
century in the face of climate change, rising atmospheric CO 2 levels, ongoing land …

Hydraulic traits explain differential responses of Amazonian forests to the 2015 El Niño‐induced drought

FV Barros, PRL Bittencourt, M Brum… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Reducing uncertainties in the response of tropical forests to global change requires
understanding how intra‐and interannual climatic variability selects for different species …

Land–atmosphere interactions in the tropics–a review

P Gentine, A Massmann, BR Lintner… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2019 - hess.copernicus.org
The continental tropics play a leading role in the terrestrial energy, water, and carbon cycles.
Land–atmosphere interactions are integral in the regulation of these fluxes across multiple …