Rong Fu was puzzled. Rains come to the southern Amazon rainforest, pounding their water drops through the canopies of the Brazil nut tree, the acai palm, the spiny Tacuma palm, the rubber tree, the ungurahui tree, and a thousand other tree species. These rains come in October. This is sooner than what conventional climate science would expect. Usually the rain comes because of the inter-tropical convergence zones (ITCZs) that bring moisture seasonally. Usually that happens in January. The Amazon rains on the other hand, were arriving several months earlier. The question of what caused the onset of the rainy season was of import, because if the onset could vary in time, then that would impact the food production for millions of people.
Hey Alpha, I’m a big fan of your work and this review is another great post. I know you have also worked on restoration projects, and I’m thinking a review like this or something about your restoration experience would make a great contribution to this special Research Frontiers issue on “Rehydrating Planet Earth”:
I am finding the missing pieces of the puzzle. I had heard about this Amazon effect several years ago.
How the trees evaporation generated a suction of air from the Atlantic. I didnt have the name of Rong Fu, bless her and many others like Dr Milan Milan
This finding of the effect of moisture and evaporation of the tress in the amazon was what made me start to study and observe what was going on in Santiago de Chile.
Until I found the work of Milan written by Rob Lewis and worked on the last articule.
Hopefuly all this ideas, studies and scientific divulgation you are doing will condense as a cloud and we will start having rain again to re -green the world.
This was beautiful. This read has definitely decided what I'm doing this weekend. Hopefully Rong Fu's work isn't too esoteric, I'm just getting back into the groove of reading academic articles.
Hey Alpha, I’m a big fan of your work and this review is another great post. I know you have also worked on restoration projects, and I’m thinking a review like this or something about your restoration experience would make a great contribution to this special Research Frontiers issue on “Rehydrating Planet Earth”:
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/61044/rehydrating-planet-earth
Thanks again Alpha Lo!
I am finding the missing pieces of the puzzle. I had heard about this Amazon effect several years ago.
How the trees evaporation generated a suction of air from the Atlantic. I didnt have the name of Rong Fu, bless her and many others like Dr Milan Milan
This finding of the effect of moisture and evaporation of the tress in the amazon was what made me start to study and observe what was going on in Santiago de Chile.
Until I found the work of Milan written by Rob Lewis and worked on the last articule.
Hopefuly all this ideas, studies and scientific divulgation you are doing will condense as a cloud and we will start having rain again to re -green the world.
Even do its not the Trend of these days!
Astonishing article, as usual ! Thank you !
Here is a news report suggesting that the primary reason for the ongoing drought in SoCal is the fact that the water drains to the ocean without being circulated for human use. https://abcnews.go.com/US/extreme-rain-pouring-southwest-us-fully-eliminated-regions/story?id=107423058
This was beautiful. This read has definitely decided what I'm doing this weekend. Hopefully Rong Fu's work isn't too esoteric, I'm just getting back into the groove of reading academic articles.
Is that illustration of the water cycle yours?