@InProceedings{XuSBKYAFWS:2017:AmRaDr,
               author = "Xu, Liang and Saatchi, Sassan and Bloom, A. Anthony and Konings, 
                         Alexandra G. and Yang, Yan and Arag{\~a}o, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira 
                         e Cruz de and Fu, Rong and Worden, John R. and Schimel, David",
          affiliation = "{University of California Los Angeles} and {NASA Jet Propulsion 
                         Laboratory} and {Jet Propulsion Laboratory} and {Stanford 
                         University} and University of California, Los Angeles and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and University 
                         of California, Los Angeles and {Jet Propulsion Laboratory} and 
                         {NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory}",
                title = "Is the Amazon rainforest drying out?",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2017",
         organization = "AGU Fall Meeting",
             abstract = "Hotter droughts are the emerging characteristics of recent climate 
                         conditions, causing increased aridity over many land areas, 
                         broad-scale die-off, and pervasive mortality in forest ecosystems 
                         globally. Using a suite of eco-hydrological measurements from 
                         satellite observations combined with ecosystem data assimilation 
                         model, we show the Amazon forests, under recent changes in 
                         climate, have been consistently losing water in vegetation from 
                         increased leaf temperature. These long-term changes have caused a 
                         decline in evapotranspiration with consequences of changing the 
                         seasonality of precipitation by increasing the dry season length 
                         and delaying the wet season arrival. Three severe droughts (2005, 
                         2010, 2015), occurring on the background of this long-term warming 
                         have an unprecedented legacy resulting in longer delays in 
                         recharging of water storage and recovery of forests after drought 
                         induced disturbances (4-5 years after each drought). The paper 
                         discusses the evidences of eco-hydrological changes pointing to 
                         the drying of forests of Amazonia.",
  conference-location = "New Orleans",
      conference-year = "11-15 Dec.",
             language = "en",
        urlaccessdate = "27 abr. 2024"
}