Inter-seasonal Non-uniform Time-lag Responses of Terrestrial Vegetation to Asymmetric Warming: Auto-blocking and Parallel Processing Mechanism (ABPP)

Abstract

In this study, an auto-blocking and parallel processing mechanism (ABPP) was raised to deal with long-term, high spatio-temporal resolution materials at macro scale. ABPP was then used to quantify the inter-seasonal non-uniform time-lag responses of terrestrial vegetation to asymmetric warming at globe from 1982-2014, a phenomenon poorly studied by predecessors. Results showed that ABPP enabled heavy burden works to be done successfully and the time was cut from 51 hours and 56 minuites to 12 hours and 57 minuites. Using ABPP, we showed that warming in nighttime (NW) and daytime warming (DW) have significant time-lag effects on vegetation growth that exhibit spatial heterogeneities; the time-lag effects of DW vs. NW on vegetation growth are not equally distributed across space. This study proposed a new approach in eco-environmental research field and could expand our knowledge of the responses of terrestrial vegetation to asymmetric warming.