Climate and vegetation: An ERA-Interim and GIMMS NDVI analysis

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 5111-5118

  Cai, Danlu ^a,b,c   Fraedrich, Klaus ^a   Sielmann, Frank ^d   Guan, Yanning ^a   Guo, Shan ^a   Zhang, Ling ^b   Zhu, Xiuhua ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmosphere land interaction; Climate variability; Water budget

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; FORESTRY; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS;

ATMOSPHERE-LAND INTERACTIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GLOBAL INVENTORIES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; TEMPERATE FORESTS; WATER BUDGET;

VEGETATION;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATE FOREST; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER BUDGET;

FORESTRY; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING; WATER;

EID: 84903388715     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00674.1     Document Type: Article

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