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Título: | Patterns of water and heat flux across a biome gradient from tropical forest to savanna in brazil |
Autor: | Rocha, Humberto Ribeiro da Manzi, Antônio Ocimar Cabral, Osvaldo M.R. Miller, Scott Dennis Goulden, Michael L. Saleska, Scott Reid Restrepo-Coupé, Natalia Wofsy, Steven C. Borma, Laura de Simone Artaxo, Paulo Vourlitis, George Louis Nogueira, J. S. Cardoso, Fernando Luiz Nobre, Antônio Donato Kruijt, Bart J. Freitas, Helber Custódio de Randow, Celso Von Aguiar, Renata Gonçalves Maia, Jair Max Furtunato |
Palavras-chave: | Atmosphere-biosphere Interaction Biome Cerrado Evapotranspiration Floodplain Humid Environment Net Radiation Precipitation Intensity Savanna Seasonal Variation Sensible Heat Flux Soil Moisture Tropical Forest Water Vapor South America |
Data do documento: | 2009 |
Revista: | Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences |
É parte de: | Volume 114, Número 1 |
Abstract: | We investigated the seasonal patterns of water vapor and sensible heat flux along a tropical biome gradient from forest to savanna. We analyzed data from a network of flux towers in Brazil that were operated within the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA). These tower sites included tropical humid and semideciduous forest, transitional forest, floodplain (with physiognomies of cerrado), and cerrado sensu stricto. The mean annual sensible heat flux at all sites ranged from 20 to 38 Wm-2, and was generally reduced in the wet season and increased in the late dry season, coincident with seasonal variations of net radiation and soil moisture. The sites were easily divisible into two functional groups based on the seasonality of evaporation: tropical forest and savanna. At sites with an annual precipitation above 1900 mm and a dry season length less than 4 months (Manaus, Santarém and Rondonia), evaporation rates increased in the dry season, coincident with increased radiation. Evaporation rates were as high as 4.0 mm d-1 in these evergreen or semidecidous forests. In contrast, ecosystems with precipitation less than 1700 mm and a longer dry season (Mato Grosso, Tocantins and São Paulo) showed clear evidence of reduced evaporation in the dry season. Evaporation rates were as low as 2.5 mm d-1 in the transitional forests and 1 mm d-1 in the cerrado. The controls on evapotranspiration seasonality changed along the biome gradient, with evaporative demand (especially net radiation) playing a more important role in the wetter forests, and soil moisture playing a more important role in the drier savannah sites. Copyright 2009 by the American Geophysical Union. |
DOI: | 10.1029/2007JG000640 |
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