Land surface anomalies preceding the 2010 Russian heat wave and a link to the North Atlantic oscillation

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Wright, Christopher K ^a   De Beurs, Kirsten M ^b   Henebry, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic amplification; Climate change; Food security; Land surface; MODIS; North Atlantic oscillation; Russian heat wave

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FOOD SUPPLY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

FOOD SECURITY; HEAT WAVES; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PRODUCTION; FOOD SECURITY; HEAT FLOW; LAND EVALUATION; LAND SURFACE; NDVI; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WHEAT;

KAZAKHSTAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UKRAINE;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84919819923     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/12/124015     Document Type: Article

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