Temperature sensitivity as an explanation of the latitudinal pattern of green-up date trend in Northern Hemisphere vegetation during 1982-2008

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3707-3712

  Shen, Miaogen ^a,b   Cong, Nan ^a   Cao, Ruyin ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Latitudinal gradient; Remote sensing; Temperature sensitivity; Vegetation spring phenology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; REMOTE SENSING;

HIGHER LATITUDES; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PHENOLOGICAL CHANGES; SEASON TEMPERATURE; SPRING TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VEGETATION RESPONSE;

VEGETATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION INDEX;

EID: 84943421617     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4227     Document Type: Article

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