Changing seasonality of panarctic tundra vegetation in relationship to climatic variables

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Uma S Bhatt, Donald A Walker, Martha K Raynolds, Peter A Bieniek, Howard E Epstein, Josefino C Comiso, Jorge E Pinzon, Compton J Tucker, Michael Steele, Wendy Ermold, Jinlun Zhang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2017
• Subjects: tundra vegetation greening and browning; Arctic climate variability; sea ice; seasonality; NDVI; Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering; TD1-1066; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Science; Q; Physics; QC1-999; Arctic; Browning; Sea ice; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6b0b; https://doaj.org/article/08960cad7ca34af6b78e0141a160c1fa

Potential climate drivers of Arctic tundra vegetation productivity are investigated to understand recent greening and browning trends documented by maximum normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) (MaxNDVI) and time-integrated NDVI (TI-NDVI) for 1982–2015. Over this period, summer sea ice has c...