An integrated assessment of the impact of precipitation and groundwater on vegetation growth in arid and semiarid areas

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 5009-5021

  Zhu, Lin ^a,b   Gong, Huili ^a   Dai, Zhenxue ^b   Xu, Tingbao ^c   Su, Xiaosi ^d  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Normalized difference vegetation index; Northern China; Numerical simulation; Plant water uptake; Spatial temporal analysis; Vadose zone

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DROUGHT; FLOW OF WATER; GROUNDWATER; NUMERICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION; WATER RESOURCES;

NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NORTHERN CHINA; PLANT WATER; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VADOSE ZONE;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

ARID REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER; GROWTH RESPONSE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NDVI; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VADOSE ZONE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER DEMAND; WATER DEPTH; WATER UPTAKE;

CHINA; XILIAO RIVER;

EID: 84940720694     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4513-5     Document Type: Article

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