Empirical evidence of El Niño-Southern Oscillation influence on land surface phenology and productivity in the western United States

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 159, Issue , 2015, Pages 167-180

  Dannenberg, Matthew P ^a   Song, Conghe ^a   Hwang, Taehee ^b   Wise, Erika K ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AVHRR; Climate variability; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Land surface phenology; MODIS; Net primary productivity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LIFE CYCLE; NICKEL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RADIOMETERS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; VEGETATION;

AVHRR; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; LAND SURFACE PHENOLOGY; MODIS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GROWING SEASON; LAND SURFACE; LIFE CYCLE; LOGISTICS; MODIS; NDVI; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85027952507     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.11.026     Document Type: Article

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