Vegetation greenness response to water availability in northern China from  1982 to 2006

Zhang, Fengtai; An, Youzhi

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-995-2016

Articles | Volume 7, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-995-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-995-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 3

Research article

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28 Jun 2016

Research article |

| 28 Jun 2016

Vegetation greenness response to water availability in northern China from 1982 to 2006

Fengtai Zhang and Youzhi An

Data sets

An extended AVHRR 8 km – NDVI dataset compatible with MODIS and SPOT vegetation NDVI data C. J. Tucker, J. E. Pinzon, M. E. Brown, D. A. Slayback, E. W. Pak, R. Mahoney, E. F. Vermonte, and N. El Saleous https://doi.org/10.1080/01431160500168686

An improved method of constructing a database of monthly climate observations and associated high – resolution grids T. D. Mitchell and P. D. Jones https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.1181

Climate Prediction Center global monthly soil moisture data set at 0.5 resolution for 1948 to present Y. Fan and H. van den Dool https://doi.org/10.1029/2003JD004345

Short summary

The relationship between satellite-observed normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data as a proxy for vegetation greenness and water availability (rainfall and soil moisture) can greatly improve our understanding of how vegetation greenness responds to water availability fluctuations. Using Sen and Pearson’s correlation methods, we analyzed the spatiotemporal variation of vegetation greenness for both the entire year and the growing season (GS,4–10) in northern China from 1982 to 2006.