Tropical surface temperature response to vegetation cover changes and the role of drylands.

ABSTRACT: Vegetation cover creates competing effects on land surface temperature: it typically cools through enhancing energy dissipation and warms via decreasing surface albedo. Global vegetation has been previously found to overall net cool land surfaces with cooling contributions from temperate and tropical vegetation and warming contributions from boreal vegetation. Recent studies suggest that dryland vegetation across the tropics strongly contributes to this global net cooling feedback. However, observation-based vegetation-temperature interaction studies have been limited in the tropics, especially in their widespread drylands. Theoretical considerations also call into question the ability of dryland vegetation to strongly cool the surface under low water availability. Here, we use satellite o

SUBMITTER: Feldman AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10092849 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature