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Comparison of Satellite and Ground-Based Phenology in China’s Temperate Monsoon Area
- Source :
- Advances in Meteorology, Vol 2014 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2014.
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Abstract
- Continuous satellite datasets are widely used in tracking vegetation responses to climate variability. Start of season (SOS), for example, can be derived using a number of methods from the time series of satellite reflectance data; however, various methods often produce different SOS measures which limit the application of satellite data in phenological studies. Therefore, we employed five methods to estimate SOS from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR)/normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) dataset. Subsequently, we compared the SOS with the ground-based first leaf date (FLD) of 12 deciduous broadleaved plant species at 12 sites of the Chinese Phenological Observation Network (CPON). The results show that the latitudinal patterns of five satellite-derived SOS measures are similar to each other but different from the pattern of ground phenology. For individual methods, the variability of SOS time series is significantly different from ground phenology except for HANTS, Polyfit, and Midpoint methods. The SOS calculated using the Midpoint method showed significant correlations with ground phenophases most frequently (in 47.1% of cases). Using the SOS derived from the Midpoint method, significantly earlier trends in SOS were detected in 50.7% of the natural vegetation area from 1982 to 2006.
- Subjects :
- Meteorology. Climatology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16879309 and 16879317
- Volume :
- 2014
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Advances in Meteorology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.2fd0f1126244762a9abd86594eb7d27
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/474876