Early flood warning in the Itajaí-Açu River basin using numerical weather forecasting and hydrological modeling.
In recent decades, population growth associated with unplanned urban occupation has increased the vulnerability of the Brazilian population to natural disasters. In susceptible regions, early flood forecasting is essential for risk management. Still, in Brazil, most flood forecast and warning system...
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publicado
08/12/2017
9:12 AM
Business storytelling about energy and climate change: the case of Brazil’s ethanol.
Climate change narratives often evoke scary scenarios. But in business discourses, the climate change narrative often emerges as an opportunity rather than a threat. This paper examines the predominant business storytelling ploys used by Brazils sugarcane industry association, UNICA to promote the i...
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publicado
05/12/2017
3:48 PM
Synthesis centers as critical research infrastructure
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publicado
05/12/2017
3:44 PM
Sensitivity of Amazon regional climate to teforestation.
It is known that the Amazon region plays an important role in the global energy, hydrological cycle and carbon balance. This region has been suffering from the course of the past 40 years intense land use and land cover changes. With this in mind, this study has examined possible associations betwee...
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publicado
05/12/2017
3:42 PM
State of the climate in 2016
In 2016, the dominant greenhouse gases released into Earth's atmosphere-carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide-continued to increase and reach new record highs. The 3.5 ± 0.1 ppm rise in global annual mean carbon dioxide from 2015 to 2016 was the largest annual increase observed in the 58-year ...
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publicado
05/12/2017
2:59 PM
“Are Brazil deforesters avoiding detection?”: reply to Richards et al. 2016.
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publicado
05/11/2017
4:13 PM
Simulation of surface fluxes in two distinct environments along a topographic gradient in a Central Amazonian Forest using the Integrated LAND surface model.
The Integrated Land Surface model (INLAND) land surface model, in offline mode, was 25 adjusted and forced with prescribed climate to represent two contrasting environments along a 26 topographic gradient in a central Amazon Terra Firme forest, which is distinguished by well- 27 drained, flat platea...
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publicado
05/11/2017
4:11 PM
Deep soil water dynamics in an undisturbed primary forest incentral Amazonia: differences between normal years and the2005 drought.
Understanding how Amazonian rainforests deal with extended droughts is critical in the face of changing climate. This research analyze the physical properties and the soil water dynamics of a deep soil profile in an area of primary forest in central Amazonia to elucidate these processes under drough...
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publicado
05/11/2017
3:52 PM
Model uncertainties do not affect observed patterns of species richness in the Amazon.
Background Climate change is arguably a major threat to biodiversity conservation and there are several methods to assess its impacts on species potential distribution. Yet the extent to which different approaches on species distribution modeling affect species richness patterns at biogeographical s...
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publicado
06/10/2017
2:57 PM
The two water worlds hypothesis: addressing multiple working hypotheses and proposing a way forward.
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publicado
05/10/2017
3:49 PM
Scenarios of vegetable demand vs. production in Brazil: the links between nutritional security and small farming.
Dietary guidelines urge Brazilians to increase their consumption of raw vegetables. Yet key issues must be tackled by the government and civil society, not only to foster consumers' appetite for healthier food, but more importantly to diminish the gaps between local demand and production, determined...
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publicado
10/09/2017
11:39 AM
Fuel for cyclones: the water vapor budget of a hurricane as dependent on its movement.
Despite the dangers associated with tropical cyclones and their rainfall, the origin of the moisture in these storms, which include destructive hurricanes and typhoons, remains surprisingly uncertain. Existing studies have focused on the region 40400 km from a cyclone's center. It is known that the ...
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