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THE IMPACT OF CLEARING FOR AGRICULTURE ON THE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET
Author(s) -
LYONS T. J.,
SMITH R. C. G.,
XINMEI HUANG
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
international journal of climatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.58
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-0088
pISSN - 0899-8418
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0088(199605)16:5<551::aid-joc25>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - environmental science , climatology , energy budget , energy balance , atmosphere (unit) , agriculture , sensible heat , clearing , spring (device) , atmospheric sciences , satellite , flux (metallurgy) , latent heat , meteorology , geography , ecology , geology , biology , mechanical engineering , materials science , archaeology , finance , aerospace engineering , metallurgy , engineering , economics
A simple model is developed to analyse the surface energy balance from satellite observations for south‐western Australia. This illustrates that the replacement of native vegitation with agriculture based on a winter growing annual species has led to a marked reduction in the sensible heat flux to the atmosphere during winter and spring. It is suggested that this reduction may be related to the observed decrease in winter rainfall observed throughout the agricultural region.