Articles | Volume 7, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-995-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-995-2016
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

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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.