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  • Titel: Impacts of future deforestation and climate change on the hydrology of the Amazon Basin: a multi-model analysis with a new set of land-cover change scenarios
  • Beteiligte: Guimberteau, M. [VerfasserIn]; Ciais, P. [VerfasserIn]; Ducharne, A. [VerfasserIn]; Boisier, J. [VerfasserIn]; Dutra Aguiar, A. [VerfasserIn]; Biemans, H. [VerfasserIn]; De Deurwaerder, H. [VerfasserIn]; Galbraith, D. [VerfasserIn]; Kruijt, B. [VerfasserIn]; Langerwisch, F. [VerfasserIn]; Poveda, G. [VerfasserIn]; Rammig, A. [VerfasserIn]; Rodriguez, D. [VerfasserIn]; Tejada, G. [VerfasserIn]; Thonicke, K. [VerfasserIn]; Von Randow, C. [VerfasserIn]; Von Randow, R. [VerfasserIn]; Zhang, K. [VerfasserIn]; Verbeeck, H. [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: Publication Database PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), 2017
  • Erschienen in: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-1455-2017
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  • Beschreibung: Deforestation in Amazon is expected to decrease evapotranspiration (ET) and to increase soil moisture and river discharge under prevailing energy-limited conditions. The magnitude and sign of the response of ET to deforestation depend both on the magnitude and regional patterns of land-cover change (LCC), as well as on climate change and CO2 levels. On the one hand, elevated CO2 decreases leaf-scale transpiration, but this effect could be offset by increased foliar area density. Using three regional LCC scenarios specifically established for the Brazilian and Bolivian Amazon, we investigate the impacts of climate change and deforestation on the surface hydrology of the Amazon Basin for this century, taking 2009 as a reference. For each LCC scenario, three land surface models (LSMs), LPJmL-DGVM, INLAND-DGVM and ORCHIDEE, are forced by bias-corrected climate simulated by three general circulation models (GCMs) of the IPCC 4th Assessment Report (AR4). On average, over the Amazon Basin with no deforestation, the GCM results indicate a temperature increase of 3.3 °C by 2100 which drives up the evaporative demand, whereby precipitation increases by 8.5 %, with a large uncertainty across GCMs. In the case of no deforestation, we found that ET and runoff increase by 5.0 and 14 %, respectively. However, in south-east Amazonia, precipitation decreases by 10 % at the end of the dry season and the three LSMs produce a 6 % decrease of ET, which is less than precipitation, so that runoff decreases by 22 %. For instance, the minimum river discharge of the Rio Tapajós is reduced by 31 % in 2100. To study the additional effect of deforestation, we prescribed to the LSMs three contrasted LCC scenarios, with a forest decline going from 7 to 34 % over this century. All three scenarios partly offset the climate-induced increase of ET, and runoff increases over the entire Amazon. In the south-east, however, deforestation amplifies the decrease of ET at the end of dry season, leading to a large increase of runoff (up to +27 % in the ...
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