Remotely sensed heat anomalies linked with amazonian forest biomass declines

HIGHLIGHTS

  • who: Michael Toomey and colleagues from the Faculty Publications University of California have published the research work: Remotely sensed heat anomalies linked with Amazonian forest biomass declines, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 12/Oct/2011
  • what: The authors investigate Amazon forest drought response using MODIS Land Surface Temperature (LST) data.

SUMMARY

    In 2005, a dry season precipitation anomaly, peaking in September, affected 2.5 million km2 in southwestern and central Amazon which has been shown to be one of the worst of the past century. After the 2005 drought, significant increases . . .

     

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