Abstract: Long-term measurements of the albedo of tropical forest and ranch land have been made at three paired sites in Brazil. The mean forest albedo, 0.134, is slightly higher than the value that has generally been used in GCM ...

Abstract: Climate data from the Anglo?Brazilian Amazonian Climate Observation Study have been compared with the simulations of three general circulation models with prognostic cloud schemes. Monthly averages of net all-wave radiation, ...

Abstract: e susceptibility of air quality, weather, terrestrial ecosystems, and climate to human activities was investigated in a tropical environment.