Credit: Image courtesy of Negron-Juarez et al., 2017, DOI: 10.3390/atmos8020028 (CC BY 4.0); photo courtesy of Jimmy Grogan design by Claire Ballweg, Department of Energy
For the first time, scientists determined the annual occurrence of windthrow events (solid and dashed lines representing different plottings of the events) in central Amazonia over a decade, plotted against annual rainfall (gray bars, millimeters per year). La Niña years highlighted in blue; El Niño years highlighted in red.