Exploring relationships among tree-ring growth, climate variability, and seasonal leaf activity on varying timescales and spatial resolutions

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Bhuyan, Upasana ^a   Zang, Christian ^a   Vicente Serrano, Sergio M ^b   Menzel, Annette ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dendroecology; GIMMS3g; MODIS; NDVI; Phenology; Radial growth; ScPDSI

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; RADIOMETERS; TIME SERIES;

DENDROECOLOGY; GIMMS3G; MODIS; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; RADIAL GROWTH; SCPDSI;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 85021165184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9060526     Document Type: Article

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