Vegetation response to extreme climate events on the Mongolian Plateau from 2000 to 2010

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  John, Ranjeet ^a   Chen, Jiquan ^a,b   Ou Yang, Zu Tao ^a   Xiao, Jingfeng ^c   Becker, Richard ^a   Samanta, Arindam ^d   Ganguly, Sangram ^e   Yuan, Wenping ^f   Batkhishig, Ochirbat ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

drought; dzud; EVI; EVI2; extreme climate; land surface temperature; MODIS; Mongolian Plateau; vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS;

DZUD; EVI; EVI2; EXTREME CLIMATES; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODIS; MONGOLIANS; VEGETATION INDEX;

VEGETATION;

AVHRR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EXTREME EVENT; MODIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRMM; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

MONGOLIAN PLATEAU;

EID: 84885435632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035033     Document Type: Article

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