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More extreme weather projected in the Amazon could have global climate consequences
2015-10-12 22:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurekAlert: A new paper co-authored by WHRC scientists Philip Duffy and Paulo Brando evaluates the accuracy of current climate models and uses them to project future drought and wet periods in the Amazon. They conclude that the whole of the Amazon will confront more hydrological extremes, and that most of the region will experience much more frequent and extensive drought. These changes would have profound implications for forest structure, composition, biomass, and carbon emissions. According to Dr. Duffy,...
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