Structural uncertainty in model-simulated trends of global gross primary production

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1258-1273

  Hashimoto, Hirofumi ^a,b   Wang, Weile ^a,b   Milesi, Cristina ^a,b   Xiong, Jun ^b   Ganguly, Sangram ^b,c   Zhu, Zaichun ^d,e   Nemani, Ramakrishna ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

GIMMS 3g; GPP; Precipitation; TOPS; VPD

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATIONS; GIMMS 3G; GPP; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; STRUCTURAL UNCERTAINTY; VAPOR PRESSURE DEFICIT; VPD;

DIGITAL STORAGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LASERS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SOIL MOISTURE; SUN; VEGETATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84877666841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5031258     Document Type: Article

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