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%X The Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) is an integrated, interdisciplinary initiative led by Brazil. It is international and includes scientists from South America, North America and Europe. The ultimate objective is to understand how Amazonia functions as a component of the Earth system; but recognising that both Amazonia and the Earth system are in a dynamic state. LBA is a huge experiment, involving a large number of people dispersed over a wide geographic area - communicating is difficult. Although the various national or disciplinary groups may meet quite frequently, it is inevitably quite rare for LBA scientists to be exposed to all the new results, ideas and debates that are emerging from the experiment. To combat this problem the Scientific Steering Committee of LBA organises open conferences at which all the scientists involved in LBA are welcome to attend. The Second LBA Science Conference was held in Manaus between 7 and 10 July 2002, and over six hundred scientists and students attended. This Special Issue is made up of papers based on the talks and posters presented at Manaus. As would be expected in a Special Edition of Theoretical and Applied Climatology the papers are drawn from the presentations on the climate of Amazonia. The scope of the work described ranges from the local scale of flux measurements and the modelling of land-atmosphere interactions at a particular site, to the overall role of Amazonia as a sink or source of carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere. In keeping with the objectives of LBA we have selected work which is seeking to understand how Amazonia functions: what are the basic processes at work, how do the physical and biological controls on climate interact and what are the results in terms of present and possible future climate? The editors would like to thank Marcus Barros, as Director of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (INPA), who hosted the conference, and all the many people involved in its organisation. We are particularly grateful to Erika Schloemp and Ellen White. Special thanks are also due Flavio Luizao, who had overall responsibility for organising the conference.
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%T Preface
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%K METEOROLOGY, LBA, Amazonia, METEOROLOGIA.
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%2 cptec.inpe.br/walmeida/2004/11.26.08.58.53
%@affiliation Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Centro de Previsão do Tempo e Estudos Climáticos
%@affiliation Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
%@project Estudos de mudanças de clima, deteção, avaliação de impactos e vulnerabilidade
%B Theoretical and Applied Climatology
%P 3-3
%4 cptec.inpe.br/walmeida/2004/11.26.08.58
%D 2004
%V 78
%@doi 10.1007/s00704-004-0040-0
%A Gash, J. H. C.,
%A Marengo, José  Antonio,
%A Huntingford, C.,
%@dissemination WEBSCI; PORTALCAPES; MGA.
%@area MET