Arctic Greening (IMAGE)

Woodwell Climate Research Center

Arctic Greening

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Arctic "greening": This shows observed distribution (left) and predicted distribution of vegetation under a climate warming scenario for the 2050s (right).

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Data used to generate the observed image are from the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (2003).

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