Figure 3.
Mean hourly difference between black body surface temperature and air temperatures for forest (closed circles) and pasture sites (open circles) in Rondonia, Southwest Amazonia, showing differences between (a) sunny and (b) cloudy days and between (c) dry and (d) wet seasons. Sunny days are defined as having a total incoming short-wave radiation flux of greater than 30 MJ d−1, whereas cloudy days have less than 30 MJ d−1. Wet season is from January to March, and the dry season is July–September, inclusive.