Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

PI Palmer, CM Wainwright, B Dong… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Eastern Africa exhibits bimodal rainfall consisting of long rains (March–May) and short rains
(October–December), changes in which have profound socioeconomic and environmental …

A planetary boundary for green water

L Wang-Erlandsson, A Tobian, RJ Van der Ent… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Green water—terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture—is fundamental to
Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental …

Tropical deforestation causes large reductions in observed precipitation

C Smith, JCA Baker, DV Spracklen - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Tropical forests play a critical role in the hydrological cycle and can influence local and
regional precipitation. Previous work has assessed the impacts of tropical deforestation on …

Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric CO2

Y Zhang, P Gentine, X Luo, X Lian, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Water availability plays a critical role in sha** terrestrial ecosystems, particularly in low-
and mid-latitude regions. The sensitivity of vegetation growth to precipitation strongly …

Evapotranspiration frequently increases during droughts

M Zhao, Y Liu, AG Konings - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in evapotranspiration (ET) affect water availability and ecosystem health.
Higher evaporative demand during drought acts to increase ET, but droughts also reduce …

Remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) in vegetation: 50 years of progress

GH Mohammed, R Colombo, EM Middleton… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is a rapidly advancing front
in terrestrial vegetation science, with emerging capability in space-based methodologies …

Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review of advances over 50 years

J **ao, F Chevallier, C Gomez, L Guanter… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Quantifying ecosystem carbon fluxes and stocks is essential for better understanding the
global carbon cycle and improving projections of the carbon-climate feedbacks. Remote …

[HTML][HTML] MODIS collection 6 MAIAC algorithm

A Lyapustin, Y Wang, S Korkin… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - amt.copernicus.org
This paper describes the latest version of the algorithm MAIAC used for processing the
MODIS Collection 6 data record. Since initial publication in 2011–2012, MAIAC has …

Satellite remote sensing for water resources management: Potential for supporting sustainable development in data‐poor regions

J Sheffield, EF Wood, M Pan, H Beck… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Water resources management (WRM) for sustainable development presents many
challenges in areas with sparse in situ monitoring networks. The exponential growth of …

Land-use and climate change risks in the Amazon and the need of a novel sustainable development paradigm

CA Nobre, G Sampaio, LS Borma… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - pnas.org
For half a century, the process of economic integration of the Amazon has been based on
intensive use of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources, which has brought …