Forest loss in Brazil increases maximum temperatures within 50 km

Author:

Cohn Avery SORCID,Bhattarai NishanORCID,Campolo Jake,Crompton Octavia,Dralle DavidORCID,Duncan John,Thompson Sally

Abstract

Abstract Forest cover loss in the tropics is well known to cause warming at deforested sites, with maximum temperatures being particularly sensitive. Forest loss causes warming by altering local energy balance and surface roughness, local changes that can propagate across a wide range of spatial scales. Consequently, temperature increases result from not only changes in forest cover at a site, but also by the aggregate effects of non-local forest loss. We explored such non-local warming within Brazil’s Amazon and Cerrado biomes, the region with the world’s single largest amount of forest loss since 2000. Two datasets, one consisting of in-situ air temperature observations and a second, larger dataset consisting of ATs derived from remotely-sensed observations of land surface temperature, were used to quantify changes in maximum temperature due to forest cover loss at varying length-scales. We considered undisturbed forest locations (1 km2 in extent), and forest loss trends in annuli (‘halos’), located 1–2 km, 2–4 km, 4–10 km and 10–50 km from these undisturbed sites. Our research finds significant and substantial non-local warming, suggesting that historical estimates of warming due to forest cover loss under-estimate warming or mis-attribute warming to local change, where non-local changes also influence the pattern of temperature warming.

Funder

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Ministerie van Economische Zaken

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,General Environmental Science,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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