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%X The Amazon region is of particular interest because it represents a large source of heat in the tropics and has been shown to have a significant impact on extratropical circulation and it is Earth's largest and most intense land-based convective center. During the Southern Hemisphere summer when convection is best developed, the Amazon basin is one of the wettest regions on Earth. Amazonia is of course not isolated from the rest of the world, and a global perspective is needed to understand the nature and causes of climatological anomalies in Amazonia  and  how they feed back to influence the global climate system. The Amazon River system is the single, largest source of fresh- water on Earth. The flow regime of this river system is relatively uninpacted by humans (Vorósrnarty et al. 1997 a, b) and is subject to interannual variability in tropical precipitation that ultimately is translated into large variations in downstream hydrographs (Marengo et al. 1998a, Vórósmarty et al. 1996, Richey et al. 1989a, h). The recycling of local evaporation and precipitation by the forest accounts for a sizable portion of the regional water budget (Nobre et al. 1991, Eltahir 1996), and as large areas of the basin are subject to active deforestation there is grave conem about how such land surface disruptions mar affect the water cycle in the tropics (see reviews in lean et al. 1996).
%E McClain, Michael E.,
%E Victoria, Reynaldo L.,
%E Richey, Jeffrey E.,
%T General characteristics and variability of climate in the Amazon Basin and its links to the global climate system
%@isbn 0-19-511431-0
%@secondarytype PRE LI
%K meteorologia, climatologia.
%B The Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin
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%@e-mailaddress atus@cptec.inpe.br
%C New York
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%@secondarykey INPE-12429-PRE/7733
%2 cptec.inpe.br/walmeida/2004/12.29.15.20.52
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%I Oxford University Press
%P 17-48
%4 cptec.inpe.br/walmeida/2004/12.29.15.20
%D 2001
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%A Marengo, Jose Antonio,
%A Nobre, Carlos Afonso,
%@dissemination NTRSNASA; BNDEPOSITOLEGAL.
%@area MET