Windthrow Variability in Central Amazonia
Abstract
Windthrows are a recurrent disturbance in Amazonia and are an important driver of forest dynamics and carbon storage. In this study, we present for the first time the seasonal and interannual variability of windthrows, focusing on Central Amazonia, and discuss the potential meteorological factors associated with this variability. Landsat images over the 1998-2010 time period were used to detect the occurrence of windthrows, which were identified based on their spectral characteristics and shape. Here, we found that windthrows occurred every year but were more frequent between September and February. Organized convective activity associated with multicell storms embedded in mesoscale convective systems, such as northerly squall lines (that move from northeast to southwest) and southerly squall lines (that move from southwest to northeast) can cause windthrows. We also found that southerly squall lines occurred more frequently than their previously reported ~50 year interval. At the interannual scale, we did not find an association between El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and windthrows.
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Redlands, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
- Brazilâs National Inst. for Amazonian Research, Manaus (Brazil); Univ. of Leipzig (Germany); Max Planck Society, Jena (Germany). Max Planck Inst. for Biogeochemistry
- Brazilâs National Inst. for Amazonian Research, Manaus (Brazil)
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1408408
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Atmosphere (Basel)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Atmosphere (Basel); Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2073-4433
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- MDPI
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Negrón-Juárez, Robinson, Jenkins, Hillary, Raupp, Carlos, Riley, William, Kueppers, Lara, Magnabosco Marra, Daniel, Ribeiro, Gabriel, Monteiro, Maria, Candido, Luis, Chambers, Jeffrey, and Higuchi, Niro. Windthrow Variability in Central Amazonia. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.3390/atmos8020028.
Negrón-Juárez, Robinson, Jenkins, Hillary, Raupp, Carlos, Riley, William, Kueppers, Lara, Magnabosco Marra, Daniel, Ribeiro, Gabriel, Monteiro, Maria, Candido, Luis, Chambers, Jeffrey, & Higuchi, Niro. Windthrow Variability in Central Amazonia. United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos8020028
Negrón-Juárez, Robinson, Jenkins, Hillary, Raupp, Carlos, Riley, William, Kueppers, Lara, Magnabosco Marra, Daniel, Ribeiro, Gabriel, Monteiro, Maria, Candido, Luis, Chambers, Jeffrey, and Higuchi, Niro. Sat .
"Windthrow Variability in Central Amazonia". United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos8020028. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1408408.
@article{osti_1408408,
title = {Windthrow Variability in Central Amazonia},
author = {Negrón-Juárez, Robinson and Jenkins, Hillary and Raupp, Carlos and Riley, William and Kueppers, Lara and Magnabosco Marra, Daniel and Ribeiro, Gabriel and Monteiro, Maria and Candido, Luis and Chambers, Jeffrey and Higuchi, Niro},
abstractNote = {Windthrows are a recurrent disturbance in Amazonia and are an important driver of forest dynamics and carbon storage. In this study, we present for the first time the seasonal and interannual variability of windthrows, focusing on Central Amazonia, and discuss the potential meteorological factors associated with this variability. Landsat images over the 1998-2010 time period were used to detect the occurrence of windthrows, which were identified based on their spectral characteristics and shape. Here, we found that windthrows occurred every year but were more frequent between September and February. Organized convective activity associated with multicell storms embedded in mesoscale convective systems, such as northerly squall lines (that move from northeast to southwest) and southerly squall lines (that move from southwest to northeast) can cause windthrows. We also found that southerly squall lines occurred more frequently than their previously reported ~50 year interval. At the interannual scale, we did not find an association between El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and windthrows.},
doi = {10.3390/atmos8020028},
journal = {Atmosphere (Basel)},
number = 2,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Feb 04 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Sat Feb 04 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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