Impact of climate change on vegetation growth in arid northwest of China from 1982 to 2011

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Rong ^a   Ouyang, Zu Tao ^b   Xie, Xiao ^a   Guo, Hai Qiang ^a   Tan, Dun Yan ^c   Xiao, Xiang Ming ^a,d   Qi, Jia Guo ^b   Zhao, Bin ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c XINJIANG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arid regions; Glacial melting; Preceding winter precipitation; Warming

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; DIGITAL STORAGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MELTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT DATUM; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; MELTING CHARACTERISTICS; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; WARMING; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84971432651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8050364     Document Type: Article

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