Abstract: he influence of forest loss on rainfall remains poorly understood. Addressing this challenge, Spracklen et al. recently presented a pantropical study of rainfall and land cover that showed that satellite-derived rainfall ...

Abstract: recipitation generates small-scale turbulent air flows?the energy of which ultimately dissipates to heat. The power of this process has previously been estimated to be around 2?4 W m?2 in the tropics: a value comparable ...