@Article{OliveiraNoCoPrSoCa:2007:ReClCh,
               author = "Oliveira, Gilvan Sampaio de and Nobre, Carlos Afonso and Costa, 
                         Marcos Heil and Prakki, Satyamurty and Soares-Filho, Britaldo 
                         Silveira and Cardoso, Manoel Ferreira",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and Department of 
                         Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of 
                         Vi{\c{c}}osa, Brazil. and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)} and Centro de Sensoriamento Remoto, Federal 
                         University of Minas Gerais, MG, Brasil and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Regional climate change over eastern Amazonia caused by pasture 
                         and soybean cropland expansion",
              journal = "Geophysical Research Letters",
                 year = "2007",
               volume = "34",
               number = "L17709",
                pages = "doi:10.1029/2007GL030612",
                month = "September",
             keywords = "climate change, eastern Amazonia.",
             abstract = "Field observations and numerical studies revealed that large scale 
                         deforestation in Amazonia could alter the regional climate 
                         significantly, projecting a warmer and somewhat drier 
                         post-deforestation climate. In this study we employed the 
                         CPTEC-INPE AGCM to assess the effects of Amazonian deforestation 
                         on the regional climate, using simulated land cover maps from a 
                         business-as-usual scenario of future deforestation in which the 
                         rainforest was gradually replaced by degraded pasture or by 
                         soybean cropland. The results for eastern Amazonia, where changes 
                         in land cover are expected to be larger, show increase in 
                         near-surface air temperature, and decrease in evapotranspiration 
                         and precipitation, which occurs mainly during the dry season. The 
                         relationship between precipitation and deforestation shows an 
                         accelerating decrease of rainfall for increasing deforestation for 
                         both classes of land use conversions. Continued expansion of 
                         cropland in Amazonia is possible and may have important 
                         consequences for the sustainability of the regions remaining 
                         natural vegetation.",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
                 issn = "0094-8276",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "Sampaio_2007.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "16 jun. 2024"
}