Response of rangeland vegetation to snow cover dynamics in Nepal Trans Himalaya

Climatic Change

Volumn 117, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 149-162

  Paudel, Keshav Prasad ^a   Andersen, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIERS (MATERIALS); GLOBAL WARMING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECTROMETERS; VEGETATION;

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; LAND SURFACE HYDROLOGY; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX DATUM; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; DATA SET; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWING SEASON; MODIS; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; RANGELAND; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW COVER; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UPLAND REGION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

HIMALAYAS; NEPAL;

EID: 84873735579     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0562-x     Document Type: Article

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