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.
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)
Simulations show decreasing carbon stocks and potential for carbon emissions in Rocky Mountain forests over the next century,
, Ecological Applications, 07/2010, Volume 20, Number 5, p.1302–1319, (2010)
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)
Testing a MODIS Global Disturbance Index across North America,
, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 113, p.2103-2117, (2009)
Impacts of large-scale oscillations on pan-Arctic terrestrial net primary production,
, Geophysical Research Letters, nov, Volume 34, Number L21403, (2007)
Is Global Warming Causing More, Larger Wildfires?,
, Science, August, Volume 313, p.927, (2006)
