Climatic Drivers of Greening Trends in the Alps

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Gianluca Filippa, Edoardo Cremonese, Marta Galvagno, Michel Isabellon, Arthur Bayle, Philippe Choler, Bradley Z. Carlson, Simone Gabellani, Umberto Morra di Cella, Mirco Migliavacca
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: MODIS; BFAST; Alps; NDVI; snow water equivalent; warming; land-use change; Arctic; Warming Land
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11212527

Since the 1980s, vegetated lands have experienced widespread greening at the global scale. Numerous studies have focused on spatial patterns and mechanisms of this phenomenon, especially in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. Greening trends in the European Alps have received less attention, although...