Satellite remote sensing of vegetation phenology: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

Z Gong, W Ge, J Guo, J Liu - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Vegetation phenology serves as a crucial indicator of ecosystem dynamics and its response
to environmental cues. Against the backdrop of global climate warming, it plays a pivotal role …

Linkages of the dynamics of glaciers and lakes with the climate elements over the Tibetan Plateau

J Sun, T Zhou, M Liu, Y Chen, H Shang, L Zhu… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Future climate warming is expected to have a significant effect on the operation of Earth and
Ecological systems. A key concern in the future is water resource availability. In regions such …

Ground-based evaluation of MODIS snow cover product V6 across China: Implications for the selection of NDSI threshold

H Zhang, F Zhang, G Zhang, T Che, W Yan… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
The new MODIS daily NDSI snow cover product version 6 (V6) is released to replace V5
with significant revisions. This study evaluates, for the first time, the accuracy of product V6 …

Rock glacier inventory of the western Nyainqêntanglha Range, Tibetan Plateau, supported by InSAR time series and automated classification

E Reinosch, M Gerke, B Riedel… - Permafrost and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The western Nyainqêntanglha Range on the Tibetan Plateau reaches an elevation of 7,162
m and is characterized by an extensive periglacial environment under semi‐arid climatic …

Evaporation variability of Nam Co Lake in the Tibetan Plateau and its role in recent rapid lake expansion

N Ma, J Szilagyi, GY Niu, Y Zhang, T Zhang, B Wang… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Previous studies have shown that the majority of the lakes in the Tibetan Plateau (TP)
started to expand rapidly since the late 1990s. However, the causes are still not well known …

Differences in the water-balance components of four lakes in the southern-central Tibetan Plateau

S Biskop, F Maussion, P Krause… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2016 - hess.copernicus.org
The contrasting patterns of lake-level fluctuations across the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are
indicators of differences in the water balance over the TP. However, little is known about the …

[HTML][HTML] Uncertainty and variation of remotely sensed lake ice phenology across the Tibetan Plateau

L Guo, Y Wu, H Zheng, B Zhang, J Li, F Zhang, Q Shen - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
In the Tibetan Plateau (TP), the changes of lake ice phenology not only reflect regional
climate change, but also impose substantial ecohydrological impacts on the local …

Using remote sensing technology to monitor salt lake changes caused by climate change and melting glaciers: insights from Zabuye Salt Lake in **zang

T Liu, J Dai, Y Zhao, S Tian, Z Nie, C Ye - Journal of Oceanology and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Zabuye Salt Lake (ZSL) in **zang is the only saline lake in the world with natural
crystalline lithium carbonate. As it is an important lithium production base in China, any …

Enhanced scaling effects significantly lower the ability of MODIS normalized difference snow index to estimate fractional and binary snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau

H Zhang, F Zhang, G Zhang, W Yan, S Li - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
MODIS fractional (FSC) and binary (BSC) snow-cover data are important for obtaining
accurate spatiotemporal snow-cover information for the Tibetan Plateau (TP) where rapid …

Effect of the reference rural landscape on annual variations in surface urban heat island intensity

W Peng, X Yang, SS Chen - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
The urban heat island effect poses a significant climate risk associated with urbanization.
Existing research primarily focuses on the spatiotemporal variations in land surface …