Climate contributions to vegetation variations in Central Asian drylands: Pre- and post-USSR collapse

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2449-2470

  Zhou, Yu ^a,b   Zhang, Li ^a   Fensholt, Rasmus ^c   Wang, Kun ^a   Vitkovskaya, Irina ^d   Tian, Feng ^c,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d The Inst of Space Res National Cen of Space Res and Technology of the Republic of Kazakhstan   (Kazakhstan)

^e CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; GIMMS3g NDVI; USSR collapse; Vegetation greenness

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; FUNCTIONAL TRANSFORMATION; GIMMS3G NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX DATUM; SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; USSR COLLAPSE; VEGETATION GREENNESS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84926345559     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70302449     Document Type: Article

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