Reply to Shen et al.: No evidence to show nongrowing season NDVI affects spring phenology trend in the Tibetan Plateau over the last decade

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 26, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Geli ^a   Dong, Jinwei ^b   Zhang, Yangjian ^a   Xiao, Xiangming ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNOW;

CHINA; EL NINO; GROWING SEASON; LETTER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; TREND STUDY; VEGETATION;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84879542798     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1305593110     Document Type: Letter

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