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- Title
Effects of Precipitation Intensity and Temperature on NDVI-Based Grass Change over Northern China during the Period from 1982 to 2011.
- Authors
Xiuliang Yuan; Longhui Li; Xi Chen; Hao Shi
- Abstract
The knowledge about impacts of changes in precipitation regimes on terrestrial ecosystems is fundamental to improve our understanding of global environment change, particularly in the context that heavy precipitation is expected to increase according to the 5th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment. Based on observed climate data and the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) satellite-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), here we analyzed the spatio-temporal changes in grassland NDVI, covering 1.64 x 106 km², in northern China and their linkages to changes in precipitation and temperature during the period 1982-2011. We found that mean growing season (April-October) grass NDVI is more sensitive to heavy precipitation than to moderate or light precipitation in both relatively arid areas (RAA) and relatively humid areas (RHA), whereas the sensitivities of grass NDVI to temperature are comparable to total precipitation in RHA. Heavy precipitation showed the strongest impacts in more than half of northern China (56%), whereas impacts of light precipitation on grass NDVI were stronger in some areas (21%), mainly distributed in northwestern China, a typical arid and semi-arid area. Our findings suggest that responses of grasslands are divergent with respect to changes in precipitation intensities.
- Subjects
CHINA; EFFECT of temperature on plants; PRECIPITATION anomalies; GRASSLANDS; CLIMATE change; ADVANCED very high resolution radiometers
- Publication
Remote Sensing, 2015, Vol 7, Issue 8, p10164
- ISSN
2072-4292
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/rs70810164