A non-linear Granger-causality framework to investigate climate-vegetation dynamics

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1945-1960

  Papagiannopoulou, Christina ^a   Miralles, DIego G ^a,b   Decubber, Stijn ^a   Demuzere, Matthias ^a   Verhoest, N E C ^a   Dorigo, Wouter A ^c   Waegeman, Willem ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; DATABASE; EOS; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; LINEARITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 85019587572     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-1945-2017     Document Type: Article

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