Journal Articles Journal of Climate Year : 1997

Global-scale assessment of vegetation phenology using NOAA/AVHRR satellite measurements

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Phenology and associated canopy development exert a strong control over seasonal energy and mass exchanges between the earth's surface and the atmosphere. Satellite measurements are used to assess main phenological stages of the vegetation at the global scale. The authors propose a method to derive the start, the maximum, the end, and the length of the vegetation cycle, based on the analysis of temporal series of weekly vegetation index, at a resolution of 1 degrees lat x 1 degrees long for year 1986. Global maps of these characteristics of the vegetation are presented, and their zonal distribution is discussed. The start of the vegetation cycle has been related to temperature sums in the case of temperate deciduous forest and to precipitation in the case of savannahs. It is concluded that satellite measurements offer interesting perspectives for global-scale quantitative phenology modeling.
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hal-02699185 , version 1 (01-06-2020)

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Sophie Moulin, Laurent Kergoat, Nicolas Viovy, Gérard Dedieu. Global-scale assessment of vegetation phenology using NOAA/AVHRR satellite measurements. Journal of Climate, 1997, 10 (6), pp.1154-1170. ⟨10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<1154:GSAOVP>2.0.CO;2⟩. ⟨hal-02699185⟩
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