Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change

LV Gatti, LS Basso, JB Miller, M Gloor… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Amazonia hosts the Earth's largest tropical forests and has been shown to be an important
carbon sink over recent decades 1, 2, 3. This carbon sink seems to be in decline, however …

Increased Amazon carbon emissions mainly from decline in law enforcement

LV Gatti, CL Cunha, L Marani, HLG Cassol… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The Amazon forest carbon sink is declining, mainly as a result of land-use and climate
change,,–. Here we investigate how changes in law enforcement of environmental …

Atmospheric CO inversion reveals the Amazon as a minor carbon source caused by fire emissions, with forest uptake offsetting about half of these emissions

LS Basso, C Wilson, MP Chipperfield… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Tropical forests such as the Amazonian rainforests play an important role for climate, are
large carbon stores and are a treasure of biodiversity. Amazonian forests have been …

Determination of region of influence obtained by aircraft vertical profiles using the density of trajectories from the HYSPLIT model

HLG Cassol, LG Domingues, AH Sanchez, LS Basso… - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
Aircraft atmospheric profiling is a valuable technique for determining greenhouse gas fluxes
at regional scales (104–106 km2). Here, we describe a new, simple method for estimating …

Variabilidade temporal da concentração de metano na média troposfera e associação com variáveis globais e regionais no nordeste da Amazônia

L de Almeida Viana, MA de Menezes Franco… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2023 - rbsr.com.br
RESUMO O metano (CH4) é um importante gás de efeito estufa, emitido por fontes naturais
e antrópicas. Pesquisas anteriores indicaram maiores emissões de CH4 no nordeste da …