Here we use three long - term
satellite leaf area index (LAI) records and ten global ecosystem models to investigate four key drivers of LAI trends during 1982 — 2009.
Not exact matches
An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using
satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the
leaf area index, or amount of
leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.
The team examined data on carbon - dioxide flux, evapotranspiration, sensible heat, air temperature, net radiation and photosynthetic active radiation from five FLUXNET grassland sites in Canada, the US and Hungary, along with
leaf -
area index information derived from
satellite data.
An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using
satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the
leaf area index, or amount of
leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.