Aerial and surface rivers: downwind impacts on water  availability from land use changes in Amazonia

Weng, Wei; Luedeke, Matthias K. B.; Zemp, Delphine C.; Lakes, Tobia; Kropp, Juergen P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-911-2018

Articles | Volume 22, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-911-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-911-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 1

Research article

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01 Feb 2018

Research article |

| 01 Feb 2018

Aerial and surface rivers: downwind impacts on water availability from land use changes in Amazonia

Wei Weng, Matthias K. B. Luedeke, Delphine C. Zemp, Tobia Lakes, and Juergen P. Kropp

Data sets

Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment - Ecology Datasets List ORNL DACC https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dataset_lister.pl?p=11#surf_hydro_and_water_chem_anchor

Land-use change effects on local energy, water, and carbon balances in an Amazonian agricultural field R. K. Sakai, D. R. Fitzjarrald, O. L. L. Moraes, R. M. Staebler, O. C. Acevedo, M. J. Czikowsky, R. Da Silva, E. Brait, and V. Miranda https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00773.x

Model code and software

ruudvdent/WAM2layersPython GitHub Inc. https://github.com/ruudvdent/WAM2layersPython

Short summary

We provide a detailed spatial analysis of hydrological impacts of land use change in Amazonia, focusing on the aspect of aerial rivers. Our approach of observation-based atmospheric moisture tracking allows us to recognize potential teleconnection between source and sink regions of atmospheric moisture. Relying on a quantitative assessment, we identified regions where water availability is most sensitive to land use change and regions where land use change is critical for a given sink region.