Deforestation strengthens atmospheric transport of mineral dust and phosphorus from North Africa to the Amazon [electronic resource]

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Corporate Author: United States. Department of Energy. Chicago Operations Office
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Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Department of Energy. Office of Science ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy, 2021.
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500 |a Li, Yue ; Randerson, James T. ; Mahowald, Natalie M. ; Lawrence, Peter J. ;  
500 |a Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States) 
500 |a Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States) 
520 3 |a Phosphorus contained in atmospheric mineral dust aerosol originating from Africa fertilizes tropical forests in Amazonia. However, the mechanisms influencing this nutrient transport pathway remain poorly understood. Here we use the Community Earth System Model to investigate how large-scale deforestation affects mineral dust aerosol transport and deposition in the tropics. We find that the surface biophysical changes that accompany deforestation produce a warmer, drier and windier surface environment that perturbs atmospheric circulation and enhances long-range dust transport from North Africa to the Amazon. Tropics-wide deforestation weakens the Hadley circulation, which in turn, leads to a northward expansion of the Hadley cell and increases surface air pressure over the Sahara Desert. Additionally, the high pressure anomaly over the Sahara, in turn, increases northeasterly winds across North Africa and the tropical North Atlantic Ocean, which subsequently increases dust transport to the South America continent. We estimate that the annual atmospheric phosphorus deposition from dust significantly increases by 27% (P < 0.01) in the Amazon under a scenario of complete deforestation. These interactions exemplify how land surface changes can modify tropical nutrient cycling, which in turn, may have consequences for long-term changes in tropical ecosystem productivity and biodiversity. 
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650 7 |a Aerosols  |2 local. 
650 7 |a Deforestation  |2 local. 
650 7 |a Dust or dust storms  |2 local. 
650 7 |a Environmental sciences  |2 local. 
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