Coupled vegetation-precipitation variability observed from satellite and climate records

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 14, 2003, Pages

  Lotsch, Alexander ^a   Friedl, Mark A ^a   Anderson, Bruce T ^a   Tucker, Compton J ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; VEGETATION; CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOSPHERE; ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX DATUM; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; NDVI; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 0141942124     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017506     Document Type: Article

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