Feedbacks of vegetation on summertime climate variability over the North American grasslands. Part I: Statistical analysis

Earth Interactions

Volumn 10, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 1-27

  Wang, Weile ^a   Anderson, Bruce T ^a   Phillips, Nathan ^a   Kaufmann, Robert K ^a   Potter, Christopher ^b   Myneni, Ranga B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Land atmosphere interaction; Vegetation feedbacks

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GRANGER CAUSALITY; GROWING SEASON; LAND ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; VEGETATION FEEDBACKS;

VEGETATION;

EID: 57149144441     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/EI196.1     Document Type: Article

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