the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB403607);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40675047 and 40605023);the Key Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZCX2-YW-219);a Western Washington University summer research grant
Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis and the related Principal Components (PC) analysis are used to extract valuable vegetation cover derived information from the National Oceanic and Atmos- pheric Administrat...
jointly supported by the Key Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.KZCX3-SW-221);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.40675047 and 40233027).
Land surface changes effect the regional climate due to the complex coupling of land-atmosphere interactions. From 1995 to 2000, a decrease in the vegetation density and an increase in ground-level thermodynamic activ...