GRACE satellite observed hydrological controls on interannual and seasonal variability in surface greenness over mainland Australia

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 119, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2245-2260

  Yang, Yuting ^a,b,c   Long, Di ^c,d   Guan, Huade ^a,b   Scanlon, Bridget R ^d   Simmons, Craig T ^a,b   Jiang, Lei ^c   Xu, Xiang ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR GROUNDWATER RESEARCH AND TRAINING   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

drought; Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment; hydrology; normalized difference vegetation index; surface vegetation; total water storage

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOINDICATOR; BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRACE; NDVI; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER STORAGE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84921977776     PISSN: 21698953     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JG002670     Document Type: Article

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