Terrestrial vegetation dynamics (in "State of the Climate in 2016")

Analysis of the 19-year record shows that large spatiotemporal deviations in vegetation dynamics occurred at regional and continental scales during 2016. A large number of regions experienced much higher-than-average annual temperatures during 2016 along with a few extreme precipitation and regional drought events. This translates into a large geographical variation in vegetated surface conditions at the global scale. The poor rainy season over Africa together with higher temperatures and drought events in South Africa impact the annual anomalies over this continent. The anomalies over Alaska were mainly due to a warmer-than-normal year.

GOBRON Nadine; 

2018-01-18

AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC

JRC109248

0003-0007,   

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2017BAMSStateoftheClimate.1,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC109248,   

10.1175/2017BAMSStateoftheClimate.1,