Drought and spring cooling induced recent decrease in vegetation growth in Inner Asia

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 178-179, Issue , 2013, Pages 21-30

  Mohammat, Anwar ^a   Wang, Xuhui ^b   Xu, Xiangtao ^b   Peng, Liqing ^b   Yang, Yan ^b   Zhang, Xinping ^b   Myneni, Ranga B ^c   Piao, Shilong ^b,d  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Drought; Global warming; Inner Asia; NDVI; Spring cooling; Vegetation growth

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AVHRR; COOLING; DROUGHT STRESS; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH; NDVI; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SEASONAL VARIATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

TURKMENISTAN; UZBEKISTAN;

EID: 84880333965     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.09.014     Document Type: Article

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