Increasing altitudinal gradient of spring vegetation phenology during the last decade on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 189-190, Issue , 2014, Pages 71-80

  Shen, Miaogen ^a   Zhang, Gengxin ^a   Cong, Nan ^b   Wang, Shiping ^a   Kong, Weidong ^a   Piao, Shilong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; NDVI; Precipitation; Spring temperature; Spring vegetation phenology; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; AVHRR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; MODIS; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPOT; SPRING (SEASON); VEGETATION INDEX;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84893506023     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.01.003     Document Type: Article

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