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What evaporates does tend to come back, but this is only because the forest seeds the air every morning. Fungi release salts as part of the mechanism for expelling spores. (Late at night high in the trees). These particles of salt rise in the morning air and mix with turpenes and isoprenes r

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Brian I wish I knew more biology. My guess would be that lots of what evaporates in the morning comes back in the afternoon so that a conventional rain gauge with evaporation carefully prevented gives a false impression. But we would only be changing the CCN concentration over the sea. The

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Thanks, Stephen, but isn't it true that most CCN over the Amazon are of biological origin? To put it in very plain language, the typical assumption about where rain comes from is that it blows in from the ocean. I'm interested to what extent it is pulled in by forests. Do you think deforestatio

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Researchers including Vizy by contrast suggest that the Amazon will dry to a open grassland / scrubland ecosystem, called Caatinga http://utexas.influuent.utsystem.edu/en/publications/effects-of-twentyfirstcentury-climate-change-on-the-amazon-rain-forest%28d2e9490e-1577-4493-a35d-5e0d93873801%29.h

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See also this article on The Ecologist by Peter Bunyard: http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2776099/without_its_rainforest_the_amazon_will_turn_to_desert.html Without its rainforest, the Amazon will turn to desert Peter Bunyard 2nd March 2015 Tweet

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How are they not both important‹the condensation releases the heat that carries the air upward, creating a pressure gradient that pulls the air ashore? Mike On 5/31/15, 10:09 AM, "John Harte" wrote: > The work of Makarieva and Gorshkov (note: not Gorshkov and Makarieva; she is > first author o

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The work of Makarieva and Gorshkov (note: not Gorshkov and Makarieva; she is first author on their papers on this topic) is challenging atmospheric scientists not because it points to the huge role of forests in the hydrocycle (I have been teaching that for decades) but rather the specific mecha

[geo] Re: Smart reforestation must go beyond carbon: expert | CIFOR Forests News Blog

To the geoengineering group, I'm curious whether group members are familiar with the "biotic pump" model of Gorshkov and Makarieva; this article gives a quick introduction: http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0130-hance-physics-biotic-pump.html A big climate benefit of inland forests is that phase ch