State the effect of deforestation on rainfall
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This could have a potentially devastating impact on communities living in or close to the Amazon and Congo rainforests. This drop occurs because deforestation reduces the natural recycling of moisture from soils, through vegetation, and into the atmosphere, from where it returns as rainfall.
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an dramatically reduce rainfall rates both locally and thousands of kilometres away, according to a study published in Natureyesterday (5 September). This could have a potentially devastating impact on communities living in or close to the Amazon and Congo rainforests.
This drop occurs becausedeforestation reduces the natural recycling of moisture from soils, through vegetation, and into the atmosphere, from where it returns as rainfall.
When forests are replaced by pasture or crops, this water recycling process changes, "leading to reduced atmospheric humidity and potentially suppressing precipitation", according to researchers from the University of Leeds and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, in the United Kingdom.
To measure this activity, researchers combined satellite data on vegetation with data on the direction of prevailing winds. They combined this with satellite data on precipitation to determine whether the air's increased exposure to vegetation had an effect on rainfall. The model was applied in the Amazon and Congo basins, the two largest river basins in the world.
The study showed that "for more than 60 per cent of the tropical land surface, air that has passed over extensive vegetation in the preceding few days produces at least twice as much rain as air that has passed over little vegetation".
Based on their findings, the authors say the Amazon basin could experience an estimated 12 per cent reduction in wet-season rainfall and a 21 per cent decrease in dry season rainfall by 2050, if Amazon deforestation rates reach the level predicted.
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an dramatically reduce rainfall rates both locally and thousands of kilometres away, according to a study published in Natureyesterday (5 September). This could have a potentially devastating impact on communities living in or close to the Amazon and Congo rainforests.
This drop occurs becausedeforestation reduces the natural recycling of moisture from soils, through vegetation, and into the atmosphere, from where it returns as rainfall.
When forests are replaced by pasture or crops, this water recycling process changes, "leading to reduced atmospheric humidity and potentially suppressing precipitation", according to researchers from the University of Leeds and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, in the United Kingdom.
To measure this activity, researchers combined satellite data on vegetation with data on the direction of prevailing winds. They combined this with satellite data on precipitation to determine whether the air's increased exposure to vegetation had an effect on rainfall. The model was applied in the Amazon and Congo basins, the two largest river basins in the world.
The study showed that "for more than 60 per cent of the tropical land surface, air that has passed over extensive vegetation in the preceding few days produces at least twice as much rain as air that has passed over little vegetation".
Based on their findings, the authors say the Amazon basin could experience an estimated 12 per cent reduction in wet-season rainfall and a 21 per cent decrease in dry season rainfall by 2050, if Amazon deforestation rates reach the level predicted.
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