The dry season intensity as a key driver of NPP trends

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2632-2639

  Murray Tortarolo, Guillermo ^a   Friedlingstein, Pierre ^a   Sitch, Stephen ^a   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^b   Fletcher, Imogen ^a   Mueller, Brigitte ^b,c   Greve, Peter ^b   Anav, Alessandro ^a   Liu, Yi ^d   Ahlström, Anders ^e   Huntingford, Chris ^f   Levis, Sam ^g   Levy, Peter ^f   Lomas, Mark ^h   Poulter, Benjamin ⁱ   Viovy, Nicholas ^j   Zaehle, Sonke ^k   Zeng, Ning ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^j MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^k Bldg 142   (United States)

^l KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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Author keywords

drought; dry season length; land carbon cycle

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; VEGETATION;

CARBON CYCLES; DRY SEASONS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER FLUX; WET SEASON;

DROUGHT;

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; DRY SEASON; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHYTOMASS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TREND ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84988352967     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068240     Document Type: Article

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