Terrestrial vegetation activity

The most negative2017 anomaly events (not favorable for vegetation) took place over eastern Brazil, Somalia, and Kenya followed by the least negative ones in the western part of Russia. The major positive events occurred in the eastern part of China and Botswana and the least appeared over Coahuila (northern state of Mexico), India, and the Rio Negro region in Argentina. The strong negative FAPAR anomalies over eastern Brazil were mainly due to severe droughts occurring at the start of the year that impacted the annual results. Over Somalia the persistent precipitation deficit extended both the geographical area and its negative level in terrestrial activities, meaning that vegetation photosynthesis declined rapidly at the beginning of the year.

GOBRON Nadine; 

2018-11-14

AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC

JRC112175

0003-0007 (online),   

https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC112175,   

10.1175/2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1 (online),