Global and regional variability and change in terrestrial ecosystems net primary production and NDVI: A model-data comparison

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Rafique, Rashid ^a   Zhao, Fang ^b,c   De Jong, Rogier ^d   Zeng, Ning ^b   Asrar, Ghassem R ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Ecosystems; NDVI; NPP; Spatial trends; Temporal trends; TRENDY models

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ECOLOGY;

CARBON CYCLES; MODEL-DATA COMPARISONS; NDVI; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SPATIAL TRENDS; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84962503942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8030177     Document Type: Article

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