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A drought in the southwestern basin reverses the carbon sink

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Anomalously warm tropical North Atlantic sea surface temperatures displace the rain belt north and leave the western and southwestern Amazon without its wet season. Rivers fall to record lows, fire escapes into standing forest, and the RAINFOR permanent plot network - already measuring the same trees before the drought - records the forest switching from a net carbon sink to a net source.

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  1. Story
  2. Anomalously warm tropical North Atlantic sea surface temperatures displace the rain belt north and leave the western and southwestern Amazon without its wet season. Rivers fall to record lows, fire escapes into standing forest, and the RAINFOR permanent plot network - already measuring the same trees before the drought - records the forest switching from a net carbon sink to a net source.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Amazon Basin
  5. The 2005 Amazon Drought
  6. A drought in the southwestern basin reverses the carbon sink
  7. Connections
  8. The 2005 Amazon Drought
  9. Amazon Basin
  10. Amazon Basin
  11. The 2010 Amazon Drought
  12. A drought in the southwestern basin reverses the carbon sink
  13. Drought sensitivity of the Amazon is published
  14. Amazon River
  15. Manaus
  16. Moisture Recycling
  17. Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO)
  18. Brazil Nut Tree (Bertholletia excelsa)
  19. Jaguar (Panthera onca)
  20. Forest Degradation
  21. Arc of Deforestation (Arco do Desmatamento)
  22. BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho Highway)
  23. The 2005 Amazon Drought
  24. A drought in the southwestern basin reverses the carbon sink
  25. A second severe drought follows within five years
  26. Aircraft profiles show the eastern Amazon emitting more carbon than it absorbs
  27. The UN climate conference convenes at the mouth of the Amazon
  28. Evidence
  29. Supports the finding that the 2005 drought reversed the Amazon forest carbon sink measured on the RAINFOR permanent plot network. V55 verification basis: not retrieved in this session; the quantified carbon impact is deliberately not stated because it could not be checked.
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