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I wonder how the albedo has changed, and evaporation of water there.
by pfdietz 9mo ago
I wonder how the albedo has changed, and evaporation of water there.
- engineer_22 9mo agoThat was my thought too Is it possible the trees can change the climate in the region? Can trees dampen regional water flux, seed clouds down range?
- WillAdams 9mo agoYes, they do, which has had implications for rainfall patterns: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/climate-change/china-accidentally-hacked-its-own-rainfall-after-planting-billions-of-trees/ar-AA1VkoS0 https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/climate-change/china-accid... (if that doesn't come up, search terms to find it were "news china rainfall forest tree planting change")
- culi 9mo agoIn fact as much as 50% of the Amazon's rain can be attributed to the trees themselves. Both through evapotranspiration strategies and increased cloud-seeding particles However, I think the more relevant dynamic for this region is the water-holding capacity of the soil. If you get lost in a desert you are more likely to drown than to die of thirst because the water-holding capacity of the "soil" is almost nothing making flash floods likely. But soil that is at an advanced stage of ecological succession will be dominated by mycorrhizal fungi that produce glomalose. This type of soil can hold as much as 50x more water than "dead" soil
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- triceratops 9mo agohttps://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/china-has-planted-so-many-trees-its-changed-the-entire-countrys-water-distribution https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/china-has-pl... was posted in another comment. The tl;dr seems to be less rainfall in the eastern regions and more in Tibet.
- estimator7292 9mo agoRainforests are tropical largely because of the trees. If you cut them down, it reverts to desert. Geography helps, but it's mostly the plants changing local climate.