TITLE:
Journal News: Osmar Pinto Jr. et al.’s Research Work, Published in American Journal of Climate Change, Has Been Reported by BBC News
AUTHORS:
AJCC Editorial Board
KEYWORDS:
Osmar Pinto, AJCC, Research Work
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Climate Change,
Vol.3 No.2,
June
20,
2014
ABSTRACT:
The city of Manaus (Brazil) is located in
the central part of the largest tropical forest in the world, the Amazon
rainforest, and has a population of approximately 2 million inhabitants. Osmar Pinto Jr., Iara Regina Cardoso de
Almeida Pinto, and Osmar P. Neto showed that the lightning activity in
Manaus is larger than that in the regions around the city and it has been
increasing in the last four decades with the increasing of the urban area of
the city. These results suggest that these spatial and time variations are
related to the Urban Heat Island effect, since it is believed that the Urban
Heat Island effect influences thunderstorm formation and evolution and, in
consequence, the lightning activity. Therefore, they suggest that the
replacement of the forest by urban areas tends to increase the lightning
activity in the Amazon region. These results were published in American Journal
of Climate Change in December 2013 [1]
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In March 14, 2014, BBC News reported Osmar
Pinto Jr. et al.’s results. The title
of news report is “Enlightened forest”, in detail, please find at
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26554974.