The year 2010 began with an El Niño event well stablished in the Pacific Ocean. A rapid transition took place and La Niña was present by July. The La Niña event in 2010 one of the strongest on record. The El Niño-to-La Niña transition was similar to the event occurring in 1998, another very war...
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22/08/2011
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The drought of Amazonia in 2010.
After the drought of 2005, drought struck the Amazon region again in 2010. Drier-than-normal conditions were observed in northwestern, central, and eastern Amazonia during austral summer and the rest of Amazonia until the end of the year. Below-normal rainfall and warm temperatures affected the wate...
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22/08/2011
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Amazon deforestation in Brazil: effects, drivers and challenges.
The concept of global ecosystem services has become a powerful paradigm for understanding the link between ecosystem processes and related human activities, which is expressed by the economic and ecological quantification of the services in regards to sustainable development. The role of tropical fo...
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22/08/2011
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Height above the nearest drainage, a hydrologically relevant new terrain model.
This paper introduces a new terrain model named HAND, and reports on the calibration and validation of landscape classes representing soil environments in Amazonia, which were derived using it. The HAND model normalizes topography according to the local relative heights found along the drainage netw...
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22/08/2011
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Por trás da seca na Amazônia.
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22/08/2011
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New remains of a gavialoid crocodilian from the late Oligocene-early Miocene of the Pirabas formation, Brazil.
New specimens of gavialoids collected from the Pirabas Formation, Brazil, provide additional information about the evolutionary evolution of Gavialoidea during the late Oligocene-early Miocene. We describe a specimen that has a more gracile symphyseal mandible than any other South American gavialoid...
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22/08/2011
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Estudo comparativo da confiabilidade de estimativas de irradiação solar para o sudeste brasileiro obtidas a partir de dados de satélite e por interpolação/extrapolação de dados de superfície.
O aproveitamento da energia solar vem se tornando viável economicamente e, atualmente, é a que vem apresentando maior crescimento mundial. O conhecimento da disponibilidade de energia solar na superfície é um fator essencial para incentivar novos investimentos em sistemas de geração o de energ...
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22/08/2011
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Enhancing information for solar and wind energy technology deployment in Brazil reference.
Brazils primary energy matrix is based on more than 47% of renewables, and more than 85% of its electricity is generated by hydro power sources. Despite this large fraction of renewable energy resources, less than 0.3% of the national energy supply comes from solar or wind sources. This paper presen...
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22/08/2011
1:52 PM
Worldwide stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes of Big Mac (R) patties: an example of a truly “glocal” food.
The Big Mac (R), McDonald's (R) signature burger, is a global food served in over 100 countries. We measured carbon (delta(13)C) and nitrogen (delta(15)N) stable isotope ratios of Big Macs (R) from twenty-six countries. The delta(13)C values varied from -25.4%. to -11.1%, representing cattle-rearing...
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22/08/2011
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The drought of 2010 in the context of historical droughts in the Amazon region.
The year 2010 featured a widespread drought in the Amazon rain forest, which was more severe than the "once-in-a-century" drought of 2005. Water levels of major Amazon tributaries fell drastically to unprecedented low values, and isolated the floodplain population whose transportation depends upon o...
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22/08/2011
1:48 PM
A Geographical approach to self-organizing maps algorithm applied to image segmentation.
Image segmentation is one of the most challenging steps in image processing. Its results are used by many other tasks regarding information extraction from images. In remote sensing, segmentation generates regions according to found targets in a satellite image, like roofs, streets, trees, vegetatio...
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22/08/2011
1:47 PM
Concurrent climate impacts of tropical South America land-cover change.
The climatic effects of concurrent land-cover changes in Amazonia and Northeast Brazil (NEB) were evaluated by simulations using the Center for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies Atmospheric General Circulation Model (CPTEC-AGCM). Three experiments were performed: Amazon savannization, NEB dese...
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