Water recycling by Amazonian vegetation: coupled versus uncoupled vegetationclimate interactions

  • 27/05/2008

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

To demonstrate the relationship between Amazonian vegetation and surface water dynamics, specifically, the recycling of water via evapotranspiration (ET), we compare two general circulation model experiments; one that couples the IS92a scenario of future CO2 emissions to a land-surface scheme with dynamic vegetation (coupled) and the other to fixed vegetation (uncoupled).