Open AccessSpring sprung earlier
Author(s) -
Carlowicz Michael
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/97eo00117
Subject(s) - spring (device) , vegetation (pathology) , environmental science , satellite , climatology , physical geography , atmospheric sciences , meteorology , geography , geology , engineering , medicine , mechanical engineering , pathology , aerospace engineering
According to a team of researchers studying satellite images from the 1980s, spring has started to arrive more than a week earlier in the high northern latitudes. Climatologist Ranga Myneni of Boston University and colleagues suggest that vegetation may have been actively responding to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and warmer‐than‐average surface temperatures during the past three decades.