Search Results - "MYNENI, RANGA"
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Extension of the growing season increases vegetation exposure to frost
Published in Nature communications (30-01-2018)“…While climate warming reduces the occurrence of frost events, the warming-induced lengthening of the growing season of plants in the Northern Hemisphere may…”
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Global Data Sets of Vegetation Leaf Area Index (LAI)3g and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR)3g Derived from Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI3g) for the Period 1981 to 2011
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-02-2013)“…Long-term global data sets of vegetation Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation absorbed by vegetation (FPAR) are critical…”
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Evaluation of MODIS LAI/FPAR Product Collection 6. Part 2: Validation and Intercomparison
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (2016)“…The aim of this paper is to assess the latest version of the MODIS LAI/FPAR product (MOD15A2H), namely Collection 6 (C6). We comprehensively evaluate this…”
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China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management
Published in Nature sustainability (01-02-2019)“…Satellite data show increasing leaf area of vegetation due to direct factors (human land-use management) and indirect factors (such as climate change, CO 2…”
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Changes in satellite-derived spring vegetation green-up date and its linkage to climate in China from 1982 to 2010: a multimethod analysis
Published in Global change biology (01-03-2013)“…The change in spring phenology is recognized to exert a major influence on carbon balance dynamics in temperate ecosystems. Over the past several decades,…”
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Surface Urban Heat Island Across 419 Global Big Cities
Published in Environmental science & technology (17-01-2012)“…Urban heat island is among the most evident aspects of human impacts on the earth system. Here we assess the diurnal and seasonal variation of surface urban…”
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Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle
Published in Nature (London) (29-05-2014)“…The unusually large land carbon sink reported in 2011 can mostly be attributed to semi-arid vegetation growth in the Southern Hemisphere following increased…”
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Impact of Earth Greening on the Terrestrial Water Cycle
Published in Journal of climate (01-04-2018)“…Leaf area index (LAI) is increasing throughout the globe, implying Earth greening. Global modeling studies support this contention, yet satellite observations…”
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Evaluation of MODIS LAI/FPAR Product Collection 6. Part 1: Consistency and Improvements
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (2016)“…As the latest version of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR)…”
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Asymmetric effects of daytime and night-time warming on Northern Hemisphere vegetation
Published in Nature (London) (05-09-2013)“…Correlations between the maximum and minimum daily temperatures and a vegetation index in the Northern Hemisphere suggest that asymmetric diurnal warming…”
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A two-fold increase of carbon cycle sensitivity to tropical temperature variations
Published in Nature (London) (13-02-2014)“…The long-term record of atmospheric carbon dioxide growth rate shows that the sensitivity of this growth rate to tropical temperature variability has increased…”
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Leaf onset in the northern hemisphere triggered by daytime temperature
Published in Nature communications (23-04-2015)“…Recent warming significantly advanced leaf onset in the northern hemisphere. This signal cannot be accurately reproduced by current models parameterized by…”
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Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades
Published in Nature climate change (01-06-2017)“…Greening—increasing leaf area index—affects regional climate in a number of contradictory ways. The net global effect is now revealed to be cooling that has…”
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Performance stability of the MODIS and VIIRS LAI algorithms inferred from analysis of long time series of products
Published in Remote sensing of environment (01-07-2021)“…The science teams of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) have been supporting various…”
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Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (28-07-2015)“…Understanding land-surface biophysical feedbacks to the atmosphere is needed if we are to simulate regional climate accurately. In the Arctic, previous studies…”
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Greening of the Earth and its drivers
Published in Nature climate change (01-08-2016)“…Satellite records combined with global ecosystem models show a persistent and widespread greening over 25–50% of the global vegetated area; less than 4% of the…”
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Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity
Published in Nature communications (16-10-2014)“…Satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), a proxy of vegetation productivity, is known to be correlated with temperature in northern…”
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Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation
Published in Science advances (03-01-2020)“…Earlier vegetation greening under climate change raises evapotranspiration and thus lowers spring soil moisture, yet the extent and magnitude of this water…”
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Contrasting responses of autumn-leaf senescence to daytime and night-time warming
Published in Nature climate change (01-12-2018)“…Plant phenology is a sensitive indicator of climate change 1 – 4 and plays an important role in regulating carbon uptake by plants 5 – 7 . Previous studies…”
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Widespread decline of Congo rainforest greenness in the past decade
Published in Nature (London) (01-05-2014)“…The long-term drying trend in central African rainforests might help to explain satellite-detected large-scale vegetation browning in the Congolese forests…”
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