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Forests make heatwaves initially warmer

During heatwaves forests reduce their evaporation. This causes the atmosphere to warm up even more. During extremely long periods of heat, however, this reduction enables the forests to continue their evaporation for longer, so the net effect is ultimately one of cooling in relation to the surroundings. This emerged from research by Ryan Teuling (Wageningen University) and colleagues just published in Nature Geoscience.

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Forests make heatwaves initially warmer


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6 Sep 2010
	Forests make heatwaves initially warmer
2 Sep 2010
	Natura 2000: Successful lessons from abroad
23 Aug 2010
	DeltaCompetition attracts innovative and diverse ideas for climate adaptation from students around the world
20 Jul 2010
	Alterra leads the way in Europe’s largest ever stream experiment for climate change
14 Jul 2010
	Biodiversity: can the tide be turned?
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13 Sep 2010
	International postgraduate course on Soil and Plant Analysis and Data Handling
22 Sep 2010 - 23 Sep 2010
	Living with Biodiversity: People, Knowledge, Politics
10 Nov 2010 - 12 Nov 2010
	Scaling and Governance Conference 2010
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