Estimating changes in global vegetation cover (1850-2100) for use in climate models

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Wang, Audrey ^a   Price, David T ^b   Arora, Vivek ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITES; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIOSPHERE; CLIMATE MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INTERPOLATION; LAND COVER; SATELLITE DATA; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 34248578535     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GB002514     Document Type: Article

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