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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4531-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4531-2021
Research article
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24 Aug 2021
Research article |  | 24 Aug 2021

Impacts of land use and land cover change and reforestation on summer rainfall in the Yangtze River basin

Wei Li, Lu Li, Jie Chen, Qian Lin, and Hua Chen

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Reforestation can influence climate, but the sensitivity of summer rainfall to reforestation is rarely investigated. We take two reforestation scenarios to assess the impacts of reforestation on summer rainfall under different reforestation proportions and explore the potential mechanisms. This study concludes that reforestation increases summer rainfall amount and extremes through thermodynamics processes, and the effects are more pronounced in populated areas than over the whole basin.
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