Beijing Climate Centre

The Chinese Terrestrial Vegetation Distribution Assessment on Feb.18, 2007

2007-04-09

Based on the data of EOS\MODIS on Feb.18, 2007, the terrestrial average LAI in China is 0.5, and the average values of different provinces shown in the table 1.

Chinese terrestrial vegetation mainly distributes in the southeast part of southwestern region of China, Southern Yangtze River, in addition to the southeastern regions of xizang province. the terrestrial vegetation distribution condition is better in the areas of Taiwan, Fujian, Hainan, yunnan, Guangdong provinces and HongKong, whose LAI are higher than 1. (figure 1).

Fig.2 The average LAI of every province in China in Feb.18, 2007

Beijing	0.199	Hunan	0.577
Tianjin	0.115	Guangdong	1.341
Hebei	0.150	Guangxi	0.917
Shanxi	0.149	Hainan	1.681
Inner Mongolia	0.114	Chongqing	0.397
Liaoning	0.157	Sichuan	0.466
Jilin	0.199	Guizhou	0.409
Heilongjiang	0.181	Yunnan	1.504
Shanghai	0.402	Xizang	0.248
Jiangsu	0.460	Shanxi	0.291
Zhejiang	1.028	Gansu	0.169
Anhui	0.565	Qinghai	0.126
Fujian	1.558	Ningxia	0.110
Jiangxi	0.866	Xinjiang	0.057
Shandong	0.228	Taiwan	2.775
Henan	0.509	Hongkong	1.742
Hubei	0.486

Fig.1 The Chinese terrestrial vegetation distribution on Feb.18, 2007

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