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Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Earth Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA. [email protected].
• ² Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Division, National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil.
• ³ School of Environmental Sciences, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Norwich Research Park, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
• ⁴ Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
• ⁵ School of Global Development, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Norwich Research Park, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
• ⁶ Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil.
• ⁸ Department of Geography, State University of Mato Grosso, Sinop, Brazil.
• ⁹ Department of Environment Sciences, Federal University of Amapá, Macapá, Brazil.
• ¹⁰ Department of Civil Engineering, Federal University of Amapá, Macapá, Brazil.
• ¹¹ Academic Unit of Atmospheric Sciences, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil.
• ¹² National Academy of Sciences, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Washington, DC, USA.
• ¹³ School of Economics and Political Science, Institute of Management in Latin America, University of St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland.
• ¹⁴ Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
• ¹⁵ Physics Department, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ¹⁶ Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), Brasília, Brazil.