Observations of increased tropical rainfall preceded by air passage over forests

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Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action (2014, background): “Although controversial, passage of air over vegetation with a specific leaf index of 1 in the 10 days preceding rainfall was observed to lead to increased precipitation in Africa [249].”
Role of continental recycling in intraseasonal variations of continental moisture as deduced from model simulations and water vapor isotopic measurements (2013, background): “However, precipitation is strongly affected by postcondensational processes [Stewart, 1975; Lee and Fung, 2008; Risi et al., 2010a].”
Agricultural expansion dominates climate changes in southeastern Amazonia: the overlooked non-GHG forcing (2015, background): “Land use transitions (LUTs) in these deforested areas likely exert a strong influence on regional climate (Costa et al 2007, Spracklen et al 2012, Oliveira et al 2013)—triggering local climate changes above and beyond those predicted due to greenhouse gas emissions (Anderson-Teixeira et al 2012,…”
Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda (2021, positive): “For instance, in the tropics, air that passed over extensive areas of forests produced at least twice as much rain as air that has passed over short or no vegetation (Spracklen et al. 2012).”
Increasing human dominance of tropical forests (2015, neutral): “large-scale forest loss likely reduces it (1-3).”