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Deforestation Around the World
Fig. 4. Diurnal (hourly) precipitations for March 2003 averaged over forested and deforested
regions.
Fig. 5. (a) Diurnal (hourly) SH flux for March 2003 averaged over forested and deforested
regions, (b) same as (a) but for LH flux.
It might be expected that the forests with their larger LH fluxes would produce greater
cloud cover on the drier days, but this is not found to be the case during this study period.
The following case studies examine representative dry, showery and convective days,
comparing conditions in the forested and deforested regions in each case.