The role of May vegetation greenness on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau for East Asian summer monsoon prediction

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Jingyong ^a   Wu, Lingyun ^a   Huang, Gang ^a   Zhu, Wenquan ^b   Zhang, Yan ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; FORECASTING; LINEAR REGRESSION; RAIN;

EAST ASIA; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; HINDCASTS; LAND SURFACE; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NORTHERN CHINA; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PRIMARY SOURCES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SUMMER MONSOON; SUMMER RAINFALL; TIBETAN PLATEAU; VEGETATION CONDITION; VEGETATION GREENNESS;

VEGETATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HINDCASTING; LAND SURFACE; MONSOON; NDVI; RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUMMER; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79952471799     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015095     Document Type: Article

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