Robust identification of global greening phase patterns from remote sensing vegetation products

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 8289-8307

  Dahlke, Carola ^a   Loew, Alexander ^a   Reick, Christian ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Remote sensing; Seasonal cycle; Time series

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; DATA SETS; GLOBAL GREENING; GLOBAL SCALE; PHASE DYNAMICS; PHASE PATTERNS; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; ROBUST ALGORITHM; ROBUST IDENTIFICATION; SEASONAL CYCLE; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DYNAMICS; TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION GREENING; VEGETATION MODEL;

DYNAMICS; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHM; ANNUAL VARIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONALITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84871791989     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00319.1     Document Type: Article

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