Inter-annual changes in vegetation activities and their relationship to temperature and precipitation in Central Asia from 1982 to 2003

Journal of Environmental Informatics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 75-87

  Propastin, P A ^a,b   Kappas, M ^a   Muratova, N R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF IONOSPHERE   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Climate change; Correlation analysis; NDVI time series; Vegetation response

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; AVHRR; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; DATA SET; GROWING SEASON; LAND USE CHANGE; NDVI; NOAA SATELLITE; PIXEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION COVER;

ASIA; CENTRAL ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 57649232315     PISSN: 17262135     EISSN: 16848799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3808/jei.200800126     Document Type: Article

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