Fig. 5: Deforestation, evaporation, and atmospheric conditions’ changes during the period of 1982–2018. | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Fig. 5: Deforestation, evaporation, and atmospheric conditions’ changes during the period of 1982–2018.

From: Observational evidence of compensatory influences of deforestation on downwind precipitation in Brazilian breadbaskets

Fig. 5

a Change in evaporation, calculated by multiplying the linear trend by the period length (37 years). b Decline of tree cover during the study period. c, d show the long-term change in integrated water vapour transport (IVT) and convective available potential energy (CAPE), respectively. The arc of deforestation around the Amazon rainforest is shown as the black contour. The breadbasket ACR and SBR are shown as the green and blue contour, respectively. Significant trends (p < 0.05) are highlighted with black hatches.

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