Deforestation reduces rainfall and agricultural revenues in the Brazilian Amazon

AT Leite-Filho, BS Soares-Filho, JL Davis… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
It has been suggested that rainfall in the Amazon decreases if forest loss exceeds some
threshold, but the specific value of this threshold remains uncertain. Here, we investigate the …

Two-step downscaling of TRMM 3B43 V7 precipitation in contrasting climatic regions with sparse monitoring: The case of Ecuador in tropical South America

J Ulloa, D Ballari, L Campozano, E Samaniego - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
Spatial prediction of precipitation with high resolution is a challenging task in regions with
strong climate variability and scarce monitoring. For this purpose, the quasi-continuous …

[PDF][PDF] Ground validation of TRMM 3B43 V7 precipitation estimates over Colombia. Part I: Monthly and seasonal timescales

SM Vallejo-Bernal, V Urrea, JM Bedoya-Soto… - Int. J …, 2021 - researchgate.net
In this study, we validate precipitation estimates remotely sensed by the Tropical Rainfall
Measuring Mission (TRMM) at monthly and seasonal timescales, during the period 1998 …

[PDF][PDF] Spatial functional data analysis for regionalizing precipitation seasonality and intensity in a sparsely monitored region: Unveiling the spatio‐temporal …

D Ballari, R Giraldo, L Campozano… - International Journal of …, 2018 - academia.edu
Regionalizing precipitation allows capturing regional-scale variability into manageable
smaller regions (Abatzoglou et al., 2009), which is useful to make information-based …

Validation of satellite estimates (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, TRMM) for rainfall variability over the Pacific slope and Coast of Ecuador

B Erazo, L Bourrel, F Frappart, O Chimborazo, D Labat… - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
A dense rain-gauge network within continental Ecuador was used to evaluate the quality of
various products of rainfall data over the Pacific slope and coast of Ecuador (EPSC). A …

Evaluation of gridded precipitation data in the Hindu Kush–Karakoram–Himalaya mountainous area

S Hussain, X Song, G Ren, I Hussain… - Hydrological sciences …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The accurate measurement of precipitation is crucial for hydrological studies. This is
especially true for the Hindu Kush–Karakoram–Himalaya (HKKH) mountain region, which is …

Evaluation of ERA5 precipitation accuracy based on various time scales over Iran during 2000–2018

N Izadi, EG Karakani, AR Saadatabadi, A Shamsipour… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
In regional studies, reanalysis datasets can extend precipitation time series with insufficient
observations. In the present study, the ERA5 precipitation dataset was compared to …

The warming and wetting ecological environment changes over the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the driving effect of the Asian summer monsoon

S Chan, X Xiang-de, W Pei-juan, Y Dian… - Journal of Tropical …, 2022 - search.proquest.com
The impact of warming and wetting on the ecological environment of the Qinghai-Tibet
Plateau (TP) under the background of climate change has been a concern of the global …

Climate risks to soy‐maize double‐cropping due to Amazon deforestation

AT Leite‐Filho, BS Soares‐Filho… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (BA) for cattle and soybean production has
significant consequences for the various aspects of the climate system. Land surface …

No upward shift of alpine grassland distribution on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau despite rapid climate warming from 2000 to 2014

N Huang, JS He, L Chen, L Wang - Science of the Total Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
The distributions of many species show climate-driven shifts towards higher elevations, but
evidence for elevational shifts is scarce for the alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan …