Human-induced landcover changes drive a diminution of land surface albedo in the Loess Plateau (China)

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2926-2941

  Zhai, Jun ^a,b   Liu, Ronggao ^b   Liu, Jiyuan ^b   Huang, Lin ^b   Qin, Yuanwei ^c  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Land surface albedo; Land use change; MODIS; Precipitation; Retuning rangeland to grassland; Returning cropland to forest grassland; TRMM

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RESTORATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEDIMENTS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

LAND SURFACE ALBEDO; LAND-USE CHANGE; MODIS; RETUNING RANGELAND TO GRASSLAND; RETURNING CROPLAND TO FOREST/GRASSLAND; TRMM;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84926362450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70302926     Document Type: Article

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