Citation
Qiu, Tong; Song, Conghe; Zhang, Yulong; Liu, Hongsheng; & Vose, James M. (2020). Urbanization and Climate Change Jointly Shift Land Surface Phenology in the Northern Mid-Latitude Large Cities. Remote Sensing of Environment, 236, 111477.Abstract
Land surface phenology (LSP) has been widely used as the “footprint” of urbanization and global climate change. Shifts of LSP have cascading effects on food production, carbon sequestration, water consumption, biodiversity, and public health. Previous studies mainly focused on investigating the effects of urbanization on the spatial patterns of LSP by comparing phenological metrics, e.g. start of season (SOS) and end of season (EOS), between urban center and the surrounding rural regions. However, it remains unclear how urbanization-induced land cover conversions and climate change jointly influence the temporal variations of SOS and EOS within the urban ecosystem. To fill this knowledge gap, we utilized daily two-band enhanced vegetation index, daily meteorological record, and annual land cover dataset to investigate the respective impacts of urbanization and climate change on temporal shifts of LSP between the post- and the pre-urbanization periods over 196 large cities in the northern mid-latitudes. We found 51% of the cities experienced an advanced SOS with an average ofURL
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111477Reference Type
Journal ArticleYear Published
2020Journal Title
Remote Sensing of EnvironmentAuthor(s)
Qiu, TongSong, Conghe
Zhang, Yulong
Liu, Hongsheng
Vose, James M.