An overview of global leaf area index (LAI): Methods, products, validation, and applications

H Fang, F Baret, S Plummer… - Reviews of …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Leaf area index (LAI) is a critical vegetation structural variable and is essential in the
feedback of vegetation to the climate system. The advancement of the global Earth …

[HTML][HTML] Crop** systems in agriculture and their impact on soil health-A review

T Yang, KHM Siddique, K Liu - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Soil health is defined as the capacity of soil to function, within ecosystem boundaries, to
sustain crop and animal productivities, maintain or enhance environmental sustainability …

Hierarchical map** of annual global land cover 2001 to present: The MODIS Collection 6 Land Cover product

D Sulla-Menashe, JM Gray, SP Abercrombie… - Remote sensing of …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Land cover and land use maps provide an important basis for characterizing the ecological
state and biophysical properties of Earth's land areas. The Collection 5 MODIS Global Land …

[PDF][PDF] User guide to collection 6 MODIS land cover (MCD12Q1 and MCD12C1) product

D Sulla-Menashe, MA Friedl - Usgs: Reston, Va, Usa, 2018‏ - girps.net
The MODIS Land Cover Type Product (MCD12Q1) provides a suite of science data sets
(SDSs) that map global land cover at 500 meter spatial resolution at annual time step for six …

Global land projection based on plant functional types with a 1-km resolution under socio-climatic scenarios

G Chen, X Li, X Liu - Scientific Data, 2022‏ - nature.com
This study presents a global land projection dataset with a 1-km resolution that comprises 20
land types for 2015–2100, adopting the latest IPCC coupling socioeconomic and climate …

Complementary‐relationship‐based modeling of terrestrial evapotranspiration across China during 1982–2012: Validations and spatiotemporal analyses

N Ma, J Szilagyi, Y Zhang, W Liu - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Having recognized the limitations in spatial representativeness and/or temporal coverage of
(i) current ground ETa observations and (ii) land surface model‐and remote sensing‐based …

Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

MP Clark, Y Fan, DM Lawrence… - Water Resources …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Many of the scientific and societal challenges in understanding and preparing for global
environmental change rest upon our ability to understand and predict the water cycle …

A unified approach for process‐based hydrologic modeling: 1. Modeling concept

MP Clark, B Nijssen, JD Lundquist… - Water Resources …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
This work advances a unified approach to process‐based hydrologic modeling to enable
controlled and systematic evaluation of multiple model representations (hypotheses) of …

MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets

MA Friedl, D Sulla-Menashe, B Tan, A Schneider… - Remote sensing of …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Information related to land cover is immensely important to global change science. In the
past decade, data sources and methodologies for creating global land cover maps from …

The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

IJ Wright, PB Reich, M Westoby, DD Ackerly, Z Baruch… - nature, 2004‏ - nature.com
Bringing together leaf trait data spanning 2,548 species and 175 sites we describe, for the
first time at global scale, a universal spectrum of leaf economics consisting of key chemical …