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Calculation amount of energy involved in evaporation in the Amazon region
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Unit
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Antonio Nobre
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biotic pump
20,000,000,000
ton water per day
5,200,000km2
Brazilian Legal Amazon
km2
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25,769,230,7697,600,000km2Total Amazonkm2
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86400 sec in a day
298,255
ton per second
ton/second
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evaporate 1 gr of water = 2260 joules
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1 ton = 1 million grams
298,254,985,7552260674,056,267,806,268watt
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Earth surface
510,000,000,000,000m2
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NASA
energy imbalance 1,81 watt m2 of Earth surface
1.81m2
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total energy imbalance
923,100,000,000,000watt
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cooling capacity biotic pump legal Amazon
674,056,267,806,268watt
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in percentage of global heat imbalance
73%
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Peter Bunyard
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1 KT TNT
4,184,000,000,000joule4,184,000,000,000
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Total incoming sunlight over the Amazon
4,650 million millionkWh
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Solar at surface conversion into ET
43%
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Total Latent heat with air brought in by biotic pump as %surface sunlight plus ET
75.00%
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in percentage of global heat imbalance NASA calculation
73%
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Source: https://repository.usergioarboleda.edu.co/bitstream/handle/11232/397/How%20the%20biotic%20pump.pdf
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BASED ON:
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The quantities of energy involved in the transformation of water into water vapour are prodigious.
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Over the Amazon Basin, the incidence of sunlight provides up to the equivalent of the energy released from 20 atomic bombs (each 15KT of TNT equivalence) per second;
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one can calculate that the transformation of that energy into water vapour absorbs the energy equivalent of 15 atomic bombs worth per second, hence up to 75 per cent of the incident sunlight (Bunyard, 2011).
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Put another way, as Antonio Donato Nobre has done: How the Biotic Pump links the hydrological cycle and the rainforest to climate 20,000 million tonnes of water are evapotranspired each day over the Legal Amazon of Brazil
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(5,2 million square kilometres [Rob: total Amazon is about 7 mio km2], in comparison with 17,000 million tonnes of water that flow into the Atlantic Ocean via the River Amazon.
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The energy for that daily evapotranspiration is equivalent to the total energy production for 135 years of ItaipĂș, the largest hydroelectric plant in the world (Nobre, personal communication, 2006)
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Source: https://repository.usergioarboleda.edu.co/bitstream/handle/11232/397/How%20the%20biotic%20pump.pdf
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