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Updated 16 November 2007

OUR CHANGING PLANET The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2008 A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and The Subcommittee on Global Change Research A Supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 2008 Budget

Figure 8. Basin-Wide Greening in Dry Season Amazon rainforest basin-wide image of average (2000-2005) Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) change between the wet (October) and dry (June) seasons. Green colors depict "greening" and red colors depict "browning" in the dry season. Credit: A.R. Huete, K. Didan, P. Ratana, and S.R. Seleska, University of Arizona; Y.E. Shimabukuro, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil; L.R. Hutyra, Harvard University; W. Yang and R. Myneni, Boston University; and R.R. Nemani, NASA / Ames Research Center (reproduced from Geophysical Research Letters with permission from the American Geophysical Union). Back to Global Carbon Cycle >>

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