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Monitoring the Amazon River plume from satellite observations

GIScience & Remote Sensing
Most of our knowledge about the Amazon River plume is limited from the field experiments or modeling due to various challenges for satellite remote sensing, i.e., constant cloud coverage, atmospheric correction, and difficulties to differentiate the ...
Wei Shi, Menghua Wang
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Flow-velocity model for hydrokinetic energy availability assessment in the Amazon

Acta Scientiarum: Technology, 2019
The Brazilian hydrological information network does not provide data series of daily velocities. The river velocities are important for the study of hydrokinetic potential.
Josias da Silva Cruz, Claudio José Cavalcante Blanco, Antônio César Pinho Brasil Junior   +2 more
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An explicit GIS-based river basin framework for aquatic ecosystem conservation in the Amazon [PDF]

Earth System Science Data, 2016
Despite large-scale infrastructure development, deforestation, mining and petroleum exploration in the Amazon Basin, relatively little attention has been paid to the management scale required for the protection of wetlands, fisheries and other aspects of
E. Venticinque, B. Forsberg, R. Barthem, P. Petry, L. Hess, A. Mercado, C. Cañas, M. Montoya, C. Durigan, M. Goulding   +9 more
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions along the Lower Amazon River

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017
A large fraction of the organic carbon derived from land that is transported through inland waters is decomposed along river systems and emitted to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO2).
Henrique O. Sawakuchi, Henrique O. Sawakuchi, Vania Neu, Nicholas D. Ward, Nicholas D. Ward, Maria de Lourdes C. Barros, Aline M. Valerio, William Gagne-Maynard, Alan C. Cunha, Diani F. S. Less, Joel E. M. Diniz, Daimio C. Brito, Alex V. Krusche, Jeffrey E. Richey   +13 more
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First record of the driftwood catfish Spinipterus acsi Akama & Ferraris, 2011 (Siluriformes, Auchenipteridae) for Brazil, Juruá River, Amazon basin [PDF]

Check List, 2018
Spinipterus Akama & Ferraris, 2011 is a monotypic genus known only by the holotype of its single species S. acsi, described from a creek tributary to the Nanay River, in the Peruvian portion of the Amazon basin.
Bárbara B. Calegari, Alberto Akama, Roberto E. Reis   +2 more
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A baseline for assessing the ecological integrity of Western Amazon rivers

Communications Earth & Environment
Amazon freshwater systems influence global hydroclimatic patterns, host unparalleled biological diversity, and support unique social-ecological systems.
Elizabeth P. Anderson, Andrea C. Encalada, Thiago B. A. Couto, Claire F. Beveridge, Guido A. Herrera-R, Sebastian A. Heilpern, Rafael M. Almeida, Carlos Cañas-Alva, Sandra B. Correa, Lesley S. de Souza, Fabrice Duponchelle, Carmen Garcia-Davila, Michael Goulding, Silvia López-Casas, Javier A. Maldonado-Ocampo, Guido Miranda-Chumacero, Mariana Montoya, Natalia C. Piland, Lulu Victoria-Lacy, Mariana Varese, Clinton N. Jenkins   +20 more
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Radar-observed spatial and temporal rainfall variability near the Tapajós-Amazon confluence

Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia, 2014
Standard Amazonian rainfall climatologies rely on stations preferentially located near river margins. River breeze circulations that tend to suppress afternoon rainfall near the river and enhance it inland are not typically considered when reporting ...
Julia Clarinda Paiva Cohen, David Roy Fitzjarrald, Flávio Augusto Farias D'Oliveira, Ivan Saraiva, Illelson Rafael da Silva Barbosa, Adilson Wagner Gandu, Paulo Afonso Kuhn   +6 more
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Viruses and bacteria in floodplain lakes along a major Amazon tributary respond to distance to the Amazon River

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015
Because of the massive water volume of the Amazon River, the Amazon tributaries have their water backed up by hundreds of kilometers upstream their mouth.
Rafael Marques Almeida, Fabio eRoland, Simone Jaqueline Cardoso, Vinicius Fortes Farjalla, Reinaldo L. Bozelli, Nathan Oliveira Barros   +5 more
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Drivers and impacts of sediment deposition in Amazonian floodplains

Nature Communications
The Amazon River carries enormous amounts of sediment from the Andes mountains, much of which is deposited in its floodplains. However, accurate quantification of the sediment sink at fine spatiotemporal scales is still challenging.
Dongyu Feng, Zeli Tan, Sebastien Pinel, Donghui Xu, João Henrique Fernandes Amaral, Alice César Fassoni-Andrade, Marie-Paule Bonnet, Gautam Bisht   +7 more
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The distribution of Cteniloricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): known and new records in Brazil suggest headwater captures as drivers of disjoint distribution

Neotropical Ichthyology, 2021
Cteniloricaria is a genus of Neotropical armored catfishes belonging to the Loricariinae, currently including two valid species: C. platystoma and C. napova.
Alejandro Londoño-Burbano, Marina Barreira Mendonça, Roberto E. Reis   +2 more
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