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 Title: Diagnosing the Role of Transpiration in the Transition from Dry to Wet Season Over the Amazon

 

Speaker: Dr. Jonathon S. Wright

 

Bio of the Speaker: Jonathon S. Wright, associate professor of Center for Earth System Science of Tsinghua University, a recipient of “Young Thousand Talents Plan”. Dr. obtained his Ph.D. in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006. Before joined in Tsinghua University as an associate professor, he did postdoc research at Columbia University, University of Cambridge, and University of Texas at Austin.

 

Introduction to the talk: Reanalysis data indicates that land surface evapotranspiration plays a key role in determining the timing of wet season onset over the Amazon. Here, we use satellite observations of water vapor and its stable isotopes, carbon dioxide, leaf area index, clouds, and precipitation together with reanalysis data to explore the importance of transpiration in initiating the transition from dry season to wet season over the Amazon. The growth of vegetation in this region is primarily limited by the availability of sunlight rather than the availability of soil moisture, so that the increase of solar radiation during the late dry season is accompanied by dramatic increases in leaf area index within forested ecosystems. This period of plant growth is accompanied by uptake of carbon dioxide and enrichment of heavy isotopes in water vapor, particularly near the land surface. Reanalysis data indicate that this pre-wet season enrichment of HDO is accompanied by sharp increases in the surface latent heat flux, which triggers progressively increasing moist convective activity. The transport of transpiration-enriched near-surface air by this convection can be identified in a dramatic increase in free-tropospheric HDO in late August and September. The increase in convective activity during this period creates convergence, enhancing moisture transport into the region and initiating the wet season, when large amounts of precipitation deplete heavy isotopes at both levels in the troposphere.

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