Deforestation and climate change are projected to increase heat stress risk in the Brazilian Amazon

Fátima Alves de Oliveira, Beatriz; Jorge Bottino, Marcus; Nobre, Paulo; A. Nobre, Carlos

doi:10.1038/s43247-021-00275-8

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Deforestation and climate change are projected to increase heat stress risk in the Brazilian Amazon

Published in Communications Earth & Environment • Oct 1, 2021

Authors:

Beatriz Fátima Alves de Oliveira

Marcus Jorge Bottino

Paulo Nobre

Abstract

Abstract Land use change and deforestation can influence local temperature and climate. Here we use a coupled ocean-atmosphere model to assess the impact of savannization of the Amazon Basin on the wet-bulb globe temperature heat stress index under two climate change scenarios (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5). W...

Subject

Amazon rainforest

Climate change

Deforestation (computer science)

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