“…The basin plays a fundamental hydroclimatological role in Earth's climate and exhibits various stability characteristics associated with land cover types and extent (Hirota et al, ; Keller et al, ; Lenton et al, ; Nobre & Borma, ). Understanding the dynamics of the hydrological cycle of the Amazon River basin has been the focus of many previous studies, some interested in individual branches of the hydrological cycle (Costa & Foley, ; Getirana et al, ; Marengo, ; Zeng, ), others in one particular variable of the hydrological budget over the Amazon River basin, such as precipitation in particular seasons (Carlo et al, ; Costa & Foley, ; Liebmann et al, ; Liebmann & Marengo, ; Satyamurty et al, ), runoff (Azarderakhsh et al, ; Coe et al, ; Syed et al, ), evapotranspiration (Carmona et al, ; Hasler & Avissar, ; Mallick et al, ), and wind divergence (Liebmann et al, ; Zeng, ).…”