Terrestrial hydrological controls on land surface phenology of African savannas and woodlands

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1652-1669

  Guan, Kaiyu ^a,b   Wood, Eric F ^a   Medvigy, David ^c   Kimball, John ^d,e   Pan, Ming ^a   Caylor, Kelly K ^a   Sheffield, Justin ^a   Xu, Xiangtao ^c   Jones, Matthew O ^d,e  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GROUNDWATER; GROWING SEASON; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND SURFACE; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; WOODLAND;

EID: 84918498997     PISSN: 21698953     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JG002572     Document Type: Article

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