Tropical surface temperature response to vegetation cover changes and the role of drylands

Andrew Feldman1, Dan Gianotti2, Jianzhi Dong3, Isabel Franco Trigo4, Guido Salvucci5 and Dara Entekhabi1, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Lisbon, Portugal, (5)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States