Phenology shift from 1989 to 2008 on the Tibetan Plateau: An analysis with a process-based soil physical model and remote sensing data

Climatic Change

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 435-449

  Jin, Zhenong ^a,b   Zhuang, Qianlai ^a,b   He, Jin Sheng ^c,d   Luo, Tianxiang ^e   Shi, Yue ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; END OF GROWING SEASONS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; MEAN SEASONAL TEMPERATURES; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SOIL PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS;

BIOLOGY; CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TEMPERATURE;

SOILS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; GROWING SEASON; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION TYPE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84879142555     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0722-7     Document Type: Article

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