NDVI, temperature and precipitation changes and their relationships with different vegetation types during 1998-2007 in Inner Mongolia, China

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1696-1706

  Chuai, X W ^a   Huang, X J ^a,b   Wang, W J ^a   Bao, G ^a,c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Land Development and Consolidation Technology Engineering Center of Jiangsu Province   (China)

^c INNER MONGOLIA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Correlation analysis; Different vegetations; Inner Mongolia; Lag time effect; Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); Precipitation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INNER MONGOLIA; LAG-TIME; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX DATUM; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES;

CORRELATION METHODS; LASERS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TEMPERATURE;

VEGETATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION; NDVI; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; SPOT; VEGETATION TYPE;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84878776480     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3543     Document Type: Article

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