Paper Review: Green et al., (2022). LST/Tair, a remote sensing-based indicator of vegetation water stress
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23 April, 2022 (Green, gcb, lst_over_tair) Green, J. K., Ballantyne, A., Abramoff, R., Gentine, P., Makowski, D., & Ciais, P. (2022). Surface temperatures reveal the patterns of vegetation water stress and their environmental drivers across the tropical Americas. Global Change Biology, 28(9), 2940โ2955. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16139
Green et al. introduced the ratio of land surface temperature (LST; temperature of the top canopy) to air temperature as an indicator of vegetation water stress. I was particularly interested in their analysis using random forest and the Shapley value to quantify the effect (e.