Evaluation of land surface models in reproducing satellite-derived LAI over the high-latitude northern hemisphere. Part I: Uncoupled DGVMs

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4819-4838

  Murray Tortarolo, Guillermo ^a   Anav, Alessandro ^a   Friedlingstein, Pierre ^a   Sitch, Stephen ^a   Piao, Shilong ^b   Zhu, Zaichun ^c   Poulter, Benjamin ^d   Zaehle, Sönke ^e   Ahlström, Anders ^f   Lomas, Mark ^g   Levis, Sam ^h   Viovy, Nicholas ^d   Zeng, Ning ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁱ University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Growing season; LAI; Land surface models; Northern hemisphere; Phenology; Trendy

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; NEURAL NETWORKS; SATELLITES; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

GROWING SEASON; LAND SURFACE MODELS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PHENOLOGY; TRENDY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BIOLOGY; FORESTRY; NEURAL NETWORKS; PHENOLOGY; SATELLITES;

EID: 84887520365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5104819     Document Type: Article

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