@InProceedings{SampaiodeOliveiraNobrSaty:2006:PrAmDe,
               author = "Sampaio de Oliveira, Gilvan and Nobre, Carlos Afonso and 
                         Satyarmurty, Prakki",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Projected Amazonian deforestation in the 21th century and possible 
                         regional climatic impacts",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2006",
               editor = "Vera, Carolina and Nobre, Carlos",
                pages = "939--944",
         organization = "International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and 
                         Oceanography, 8. (ICSHMO).",
            publisher = "American Meteorological Society (AMS)",
              address = "45 Beacon Hill Road, Boston, MA, USA",
             keywords = "Amazon rain-forests, deforestation, vegetation, climate.",
             abstract = "In the last years, many authors have discussed the possible 
                         effects of tropical deforestation on global climate processes. 
                         Many AGCM modeling studies have considered the sensitivity of the 
                         climate system to a complete conversion of Amazonian rainforests 
                         to pastures (Dickinson and Henderson-Sellers, 1988; Nobre et al., 
                         1991, Henderson-Sellers et al., 1993). Most of these studies have 
                         showed the importance of the tropical rainforests for the Earths 
                         climate. The climate of Amazonia is responding to two concurrent 
                         pertubations: rapid rates of land-use change, mostly conversion of 
                         forest to pasture or cropland, and global warming. The present 
                         work evaluates the impacts of the conversion of Amazonia 
                         rainforest to pasture, using five distinct scenarios: 1) land 
                         cover scenario for year 2025 (~28% deforested area - from 
                         Soares-Filho- Amazon Scenarios Project, 2005); 2) scenario for 
                         year 2050; 3) scenario for year 2075; 4) scenario for year 2100 
                         (~67% deforested area) and 5) replace all the Amazonia rainforest 
                         by pasture. In all cases, the deforested areas are replaced by 
                         degraded grass (pasture). We have used CPTEC global atmospheric 
                         model to assess the effects of Amazonian deforestation on the 
                         regional climate. The results shows increase in surface 
                         temperature, a decrease in evapotranspiration and precipitation. 
                         There is also a discussion on changes of precipitation patterns.",
  conference-location = "Foz do Igua{\c{c}}u",
      conference-year = "24-28 Apr. 2006",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
             language = "en",
         organisation = "American Meteorological Society (AMS)",
                  ibi = "cptec.inpe.br/adm_conf/2005/10.31.16.29.54",
                  url = "http://urlib.net/ibi/cptec.inpe.br/adm_conf/2005/10.31.16.29.54",
           targetfile = "Projected_Amazonian_Deforestation_Gilvan_2006.pdf",
                 type = "Impacts of land cover and land use changes",
        urlaccessdate = "09 maio 2024"
}