User:Rive2250/Tropical rainforest climate

This article could use a section on talking about climate change and how this is specifically affecting climate of tropical rainforest regions. A peer-reviewed scientific journal that I found talked about the widening of the tropical belt in a changing climate. Widening of the tropics may lead to changes in the distribution of gases into the atmosphere. Shifts in these regions can lead to very detrimental effects, leaving ecosystems as well as humans impacted. Circulation moves air upwards from the troposphere into the stratosphere in the tropics, and if the area where upwelling occurs increases, transport of water vapour into the stratosphere might be enhanced. This could lead to an enhanced greenhouse effect, including tropospheric warming. This article was useful to me because it helped me understand what exactly the tropical belt was and its significance to earth and in maintaining certain communities/ecosystems where they are. This source is credible because it was in affiliation with NOAA and other research departments from universities where the authors are employed.

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Seidel, D. J., Fu, Q., Randel, W. J., & Reiohler, T. J. (2008). Widening of the tropical belt in a changing climate. Nature Methods, 1(1), 21–24. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo.2007.38