Pan-Arctic Climate and Land Cover Trends Derived from Multi-Variate and Multi-Scale Analyses (1981–2012)
Arctic ecosystems have been afflicted by vast changes in recent decades. Changes in temperature, as well as precipitation, are having an impact on snow cover, vegetation productivity and coverage, vegetation seasonality, surface albedo, and permafrost dynamics. The coupled climate-vegetation change...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:e4e3781755b24f3b8b76b6f49dd84087 2023-05-15T13:11:02+02:00 Pan-Arctic Climate and Land Cover Trends Derived from Multi-Variate and Multi-Scale Analyses (1981–2012) Marcel Urban Matthias Forkel Jonas Eberle Christian Hüttich Christiane Schmullius Martin Herold 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6032296 https://doaj.org/article/e4e3781755b24f3b8b76b6f49dd84087 EN eng MDPI AG http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/3/2296 https://doaj.org/toc/2072-4292 2072-4292 doi:10.3390/rs6032296 https://doaj.org/article/e4e3781755b24f3b8b76b6f49dd84087 Remote Sensing, Vol 6, Iss 3, Pp 2296-2316 (2014) Arctic temperature precipitation snow water equivalent NDVI3g trends CRU tree line RapidEye Landsat Science Q article 2014 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6032296 2022-12-31T16:09:03Z Arctic ecosystems have been afflicted by vast changes in recent decades. Changes in temperature, as well as precipitation, are having an impact on snow cover, vegetation productivity and coverage, vegetation seasonality, surface albedo, and permafrost dynamics. The coupled climate-vegetation change in the arctic is thought to be a positive feedback in the Earth system, which can potentially further accelerate global warming. This study focuses on the co-occurrence of temperature, precipitation, snow cover, and vegetation greenness trends between 1981 and 2012 in the pan-arctic region based on coarse resolution climate and remote sensing data, as well as ground stations. Precipitation significantly increased during summer and fall. Temperature had the strongest increase during the winter months (twice than during the summer months). The snow water equivalent had the highest trends during the transition seasons of the year. Vegetation greenness trends are characterized by a constant increase during the vegetation-growing period. High spatial resolution remote sensing data were utilized to map structural vegetation changes between 1973 and 2012 for a selected test region in Northern Siberia. An intensification of woody vegetation cover at the taiga-tundra transition area was found. The observed co-occurrence of climatic and ecosystem changes is an example of the multi-scale feedbacks in the arctic ecosystems. Article in Journal/Newspaper albedo Arctic Global warming permafrost taiga Tundra Siberia Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Remote Sensing 6 3 2296 2316 |
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Arctic ecosystems have been afflicted by vast changes in recent decades. Changes in temperature, as well as precipitation, are having an impact on snow cover, vegetation productivity and coverage, vegetation seasonality, surface albedo, and permafrost dynamics. The coupled climate-vegetation change in the arctic is thought to be a positive feedback in the Earth system, which can potentially further accelerate global warming. This study focuses on the co-occurrence of temperature, precipitation, snow cover, and vegetation greenness trends between 1981 and 2012 in the pan-arctic region based on coarse resolution climate and remote sensing data, as well as ground stations. Precipitation significantly increased during summer and fall. Temperature had the strongest increase during the winter months (twice than during the summer months). The snow water equivalent had the highest trends during the transition seasons of the year. Vegetation greenness trends are characterized by a constant increase during the vegetation-growing period. High spatial resolution remote sensing data were utilized to map structural vegetation changes between 1973 and 2012 for a selected test region in Northern Siberia. An intensification of woody vegetation cover at the taiga-tundra transition area was found. The observed co-occurrence of climatic and ecosystem changes is an example of the multi-scale feedbacks in the arctic ecosystems. |
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Marcel Urban Matthias Forkel Jonas Eberle Christian Hüttich Christiane Schmullius Martin Herold |
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Marcel Urban Matthias Forkel Jonas Eberle Christian Hüttich Christiane Schmullius Martin Herold |
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Pan-Arctic Climate and Land Cover Trends Derived from Multi-Variate and Multi-Scale Analyses (1981–2012) |
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Pan-Arctic Climate and Land Cover Trends Derived from Multi-Variate and Multi-Scale Analyses (1981–2012) |
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Pan-Arctic Climate and Land Cover Trends Derived from Multi-Variate and Multi-Scale Analyses (1981–2012) |
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Pan-Arctic Climate and Land Cover Trends Derived from Multi-Variate and Multi-Scale Analyses (1981–2012) |
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Pan-Arctic Climate and Land Cover Trends Derived from Multi-Variate and Multi-Scale Analyses (1981–2012) |
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pan-arctic climate and land cover trends derived from multi-variate and multi-scale analyses (1981–2012) |
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