Interfacial, International and Interdisciplinary Studies on Maritime-Continent Peatland Controlling Global Climate

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  • YAMANAKA Manabu D.
    Inter-University Research Institute Corporation, National Institutes for Humanities,<sup> </sup>Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Tropical Peatland Society Project Professor Emeritus, Kobe University

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  • 水際・国際・学際：「海大陸」海岸泥炭地が決める地球の気候
  • ミズギワ ・ コクサイ ・ ガクサイ : 「 ウミ タイリク 」 カイガン デイタンチ ガ キメル チキュウ ノ キコウ

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<p>　The Indonesian “maritime continent” has coastlines far longer than real continents, along which the diurnal-cycle sea-land breeze circulations generate the world’s most active precipitating clouds and their releasing latent heat compensates the insolation (minus parasol effect) – infrared radiation (minus greenhouse effect) balance. It is this mechanism keeping both Earth’s climate and water on Earth that maintains the biosphere relaxing the triple discontinuity among land, ocean and atmosphere inside which the anthroposphere has been growing up. For example, the swampy forests over peatland areas in Sumatera and Kalimantan preserve massive carbon, and their conversion to arid plantations for exporting products makes serious fires in particular during El Niño and/or Indian-Ocean dipole mode events and accelerates the global warming. The sustainability of such coexistence between climate and the bio-anthroposphere must be studied internationally and interdisciplinarily.</p>

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