NDVI-indicated decline in desertification in China in the past two decades

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Piao, Shilong ^a   Fang, Jingyun ^a   Liu, Hongyan ^a   Zhu, Biao ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

CLIMATIC VARIABLES; DESERTIFICATION; MOISTURE INDEX; SEMIARID REGIONS;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

ARID REGION; DESERTIFICATION; NDVI; SEMIARID REGION;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

EID: 20044362789     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021764     Document Type: Article

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