Amazon rainforests green-up with sunlight in dry season

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Huete, Alfredo R ^a   Didan, Kamel ^a   Shimabukuro, Yosio E ^b   Ratana, Piyachat ^a   Saleska, Scott R ^a,c   Hutyra, Lucy R ^d   Yang, Wenze ^e   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^f   Myneni, Ranga ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RADIOMETERS; SPECTROMETERS; VEGETATION; WEATHER SATELLITES;

FOREST CANOPY PHOTOSYNTHESIS; LOCAL FLUX MEASUREMENTS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); RAINFORESTS; SATELLITE MEASURMENTS;

FORESTRY;

DRY SEASON; METABOLISM; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RAINFOREST; VEGETATION INDEX;

CLIMATES; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; PLANTS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33646450301     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025583     Document Type: Article

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