Global warming has contributed to the extension of the growing season in North
Hemisphere. In this paper, we investigated the spatial characteristics of the date of the start …

Northeast China is an important commodity grain base in China and plays an important role
in maintaining national and local food security. The intensifying climate variability and …

Daily time series with continuous records of mean air and soil temperature from 127
meteorological stations—fairly distributed over the country—were used to compute monthly …

The warming or cooling effects on regional climate in response to early land use change
may be strengthened, weakened, or eliminated by the same or opposite effect in the …

Numerous studies have documented the effects of irrigation on local, regional, and global
climate. However, most studies focused on the cooling effect of irrigated dryland in semiarid …

Paddy expansion changes land use types and increases irrigation, which results in altering
surface-atmosphere energy flux exchange processes with an additional impact of increase …

The newly released MODIS Collection 6 aerosol products have been widely used to
evaluate fine particulate matter with a 10 km Dark Target aerosol optic depth (DT AOD) …

As a vital parameter describing the Earth surface energy budget, surface all-wave net
radiation () drives many physical and biological processes. Remote estimation of using …

Albedo is one of the import parameters for the routine applications of various remote sensing
models, and most methods for estimating albedo are only applicable in plain areas with …

Due to the high economic activity and population density, the southeast region of Brazil
experiences accelerated processes of changes in land use and cover, which contribute to …