The Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG) is a research laboratory at The University of Montana in Missoula pioneering new approaches for landscape ecological and hydrological analyses. The primary focus of NTSG is to understand how terrestrial vegetation responds to climate variability and influences energy, water and carbon cycles. NTSG conducts research over a broad range of spatial scales from individual landscape units to basin, continental and global domains. NTSG has strong emphasis in the application of ecological theory and environmental analysis using computational process modeling, satellite remote sensing and GIS. NTSG is a NASA Earth Science Information Partner (ESIP) and is involved with the NASA Earth Observing System as a repository for a variety of global land data products, including MODIS (MOD17) vegetation productivity.
The global NPP dependence on ENSO: La Niña and the extraordinary year of 2011,
, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 09/2013, Volume 118, Issue 3, Number 3, p.1247–1255, (2013)
A Remotely Sensed Global Terrestrial Drought Severity Index,
, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 01/2013, Volume 94, Issue 1, Number 1, p.83–98, (2013)
Global Bioenergy Capacity as Constrained by Observed Biospheric Productivity Rates,
, BioScience, 10/2012, Volume 62, Issue 10, Number 10, p.911–922, (2012)
A Measurable Planetary Boundary for the Biosphere,
, Science, 09/2012, Volume 337, Number 6101, p.1458–1459, (2012)
Bioenergy Potential of the United States Constrained by Satellite Observations of Existing Productivity,
, Environmental Science and Technology, 02/2012, (2012)
Satellite Finds Highest Land Skin Temperatures on Earth,
, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 07/2011, Volume 92, p.855–860, (2011)
Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009,
, Science, 08/2010, Volume 329, Number 5994, p.940 - 943, (2010)
A continuous satellite-derived global record of land surface evapotranspiration from 1983 to 2006,
, Water Resources Research, 09/2010, Volume 46, Number W09522, (2010)
