Relationships among phenological growing season, time‐integrated normalized difference vegetation index and climate forcing in the temperate region of eastern China

Phenological, meteorological, and time‐integrated normalized difference vegetation index (TI NDVI) data from 1982 to 1993, at three sample stations, were used to investigate the response of the growing season of local plant communities to climate change and the linkage of satellite sensor‐derived greenness to the surface growing season. Results suggest that mean air temperature and growing degree days (GDDs) above 5 °C during late winter and spring, and precipitation in autumn, are the most important controls on the beginning and end dates of the growing season (BGS and EGS). In contrast, annual mean air temperature, annual GDD totals, mean air temperature during late winter and spring, and growing season TI NDVI are the most important controls on length of the growing season (LGS).

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