Terrestrial vegetation Dynamics

Analysis of the 18-year record shows that large spatiotemporal deviations in vegetation dynamics occurred at regional and continental scales during 2015. The state of vegetation is examined by merging 1998–2015 estimates of the Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR)from three different sensors: SeaWiFS (NASA),MERIS (ESA), and MODIS (NASA). The largest annual negative anomalies (not favorable for vegetation) occurred over the high northern latitudes from Alaska to Sweden and Norway, and also over the equatorial belt from central and northeastern Brazil, central Africa, and Indonesia. To a lesser extent, regions near the Black and Caspian Seas were also affected. The largest positive annual anomalies appeared over Mexico, the southern United States, Minas Gerais (Brazil), Turkey, and China. Limited positive anomalies occurred over eastern parts of Europe, India, and the Ural region of Russia.

GOBRON Nadine; 

2017-01-09

AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC

JRC105219

0003-0007,   

https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/state-of-the-climate/,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC105219,   

10.1175/2016BAMSStateoftheClimate.1,