Fig. 6: Comparison of VOD AR(1) signal compared to northern tropical Atlantic SSTs and changes in Amazon basin human land use.
From: Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s
a, Northern tropical Atlantic SST anomalies averaged over 15–70° W, 5–25° N, once a mean monthly cycle has been removed. Horizontal black lines denote the decade-mean anomalies. b, Spatially averaged Amazon basin VOD AR(1) time series as in Fig. 2, plotted at the midpoint of the window used to calculate AR(1) rather than at the end of the window. c, Annual time series of percentage of grid cells in the Amazon basin that have human land use (as described in Methods). Red bands refer to 2005, 2010 and 2015, which were severe drought years in the Amazon basin. Arrows in b show the peak value in AR(1) in or near the drought years. These peak values may appear earlier due to the AR(1) time series being calculated on a moving window, compared to the SST anomalies being a monthly mean.
