Future climate impact on the desertification in the dry land asia using AVHRR GIMMS NDVI3g data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 3863-3877

  Miao, Lijuan ^a,b   Ye, Peilong ^c   He, Bin ^a   Chen, Lizi ^d   Cui, Xuefeng ^a,e  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Climate change; CMIP5; Desertification; Dry land Asia; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; BAYESIAN MODEL AVERAGING; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CMIP5; DESERTIFICATION; DRY LAND; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84937940283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70403863     Document Type: Article

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