Spatiotemporal vegetation cover variations in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau under global climate change

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 915-922

  Xu, Xingkui ^a   Chen, Hong ^a   Levy, Jason K ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic factor; Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF); LAI; Qinghai Tibet Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149117597     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0115-x     Document Type: Article

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