Amazon Rainforest, link to Carbon and Water Cycle

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  • How the Amazon Rainforest is linked to the Carbon and Water Cycle
    • Amazon is one of the Largest rainforests
      • Covers 2.1 million square miles of land
      • Home to 20 million people
    • Carbon
      • Estimated store between 80 and 120 billion tonnes of carbon.
      • Negative feedback loop - rising atmospheric levels of CO2
      • Dead animals and trees emit an estimated 1.9 billion tons of carbon
      • In a normal year the forest absolbes around 2.2 Billion tonnes of CO2
    • Water
      • Average rainfall across the Amazon is 2,300 mm annually.
      • Only 30% of the rainfall reaches the sea, the rest enters a never ending loop
      • In some areas of the northwest portion of the Amazon basin annual rainfall can exceed 6000mm3
      • Half the rainfall in some areas never reach the ground - intercepted by forest and re-evaporated into the atmosphere
    • Around 30% of anthropogenic carbon emissions come from burning rainforests alone.
    • Additional evaporation occurs from ground and river surfaces

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