Pan-Arctic climate and land cover trends derived from multi-variate and multi-scale analyses (1981-2012)

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2296-2316

  Urban, Marcel ^a   Forkel, Matthias ^b   Eberle, Jonas ^a   Hüttich, Christian ^a   Schmullius, Christiane ^a   Herold, Martin ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arctic; CRU; Landsat; NDVI3g; Precipitation; RapidEye; Snow water equivalent; Temperature; Tree line; Trends

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ECOSYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; CRU; LANDSAT; NDVI3G; RAPIDEYE; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; TREE LINE; TRENDS;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84897013383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6032296     Document Type: Article

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