Vegetation variations along the monsoon boundary zone in East Asia

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 698-705

  Ou, Ting Hai ^a   Qian, Wei Hong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate factor; East Asia; Interannual variation; Monsoon boundary zone; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; MONSOON; NDVI; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33749410261     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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