Contrasting impacts of forests on cloud cover based on satellite observations

Autor: Ru Xu, Yan Li, Adriaan J. Teuling, Lei Zhao, Dominick V. Spracklen, Luis Garcia-Carreras, Ronny Meier, Liang Chen, Youtong Zheng, Huiqing Lin, Bojie Fu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28161-7
Popis: How forests influence cloud cover in different regions is not well understood. Here, the authors use satellite data to show that forests enhance clouds over most temperate and boreal forests but inhibited clouds over forests of Amazon, Central Africa, and Southeast US relative to nonforest areas.
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