Fig. 5: Impacts of forest loss on JJA cloud cover based on MODIS data from 2002 to 2018.
From: Contrasting impacts of forests on cloud cover based on satellite observations
a The accumulated forest loss fraction from 2001 to 2018. b The actual cloud impact of forest loss (ΔCloudloss), defined as the mean cloud difference between forest loss location and nearby unchanged forests from 2002 to 2018. Four hotspot regions that experienced intensive forest loss are highlighted in panels c to r, showing their forest loss fractions, mean ΔCloudloss during the study period, and regional and temporal trends of ΔCloudloss between 2002 and 2018 (column-wise). The cloud impacts in forest loss hotspot regions are estimated from grid boxes with tree cover loss fraction >0.05. The green dashed line in the last column (f, j, n, r) shows the annual tree cover difference between forest loss location and nearby unchanged forests (ΔTree); the solid blue line shows the temporal trends of ΔCloudloss (unit: %/year); and the thin blue line and text show the linear fitted trend and its p value.
