Changes in growing season duration and productivity of northern vegetation inferred from long-term remote sensing data

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Park, Taejin ^a   Ganguly, Sangram ^b   TØmmervik, Hans ^c   Euskirchen, Eugénie S ^d   HØgda, Kjell Arild ^e   Karlsen, Stein Rune ^e   Brovkin, Victor ^f   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^b   Myneni, Ranga B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e NORUT IT   (Norway)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AVHRR; boreal and arctic; climate change; gross primary productivity; MODIS; photosynthetically active growing season; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; VEGETATION;

AVHRR; BOREAL AND ARCTIC; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; GROWING SEASON; MODIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; AVHRR; BOREAL KINGDOM; CLIMATE CHANGE; EOS; GROWING SEASON; MODIS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84980386708     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/8/084001     Document Type: Article

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