Public forests of the Brazilian Legal Amazon and its 70 million hectares of undesignated forestlands (IPAM, with data from SFB, 2016).
The Hydrology and Energy Balance of the Amazon Basin
The Amazon basin is the planet’s largest and most intense land-based centre of precipitation. This convective system is driven by high net surface radiation, which is dissipated via fluxes of latent heat and sensible heat. Over the long term (1 year or greater),...