From El Niño to La Niña: Vegetation response patterns over east and southern Africa during the 1997-2000 period

Journal of Climate

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 3096-3103

  Anyamba, Assaf ^a   Tucker, Compton J ^a   Mahoney, Robert ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GLOBAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; BIOMASS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOMETERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC PATTERNS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AVHRR; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LA NINA; NDVI; VEGETATION;

(EAST); (SOUTH); AFRICA;

EID: 0036865494     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<3096:FENOTL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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