Sezoninė ir daugiametė NDVI kaita skirtingų tipų žemės naudmenose rytinėje Baltijos jūros regiono dalyje

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Seasonality and long-term trends of NDVI values in different land use types in the eastern part of the Baltic Sea basin

This study analyses changes in Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) values in the eastern Baltic region. The main aim of the work is to evaluate changes in growing season indicators (onset, end time, time of maximum greenness and duration) and their relationship with meteorological conditions (air temperature and precipitation) in 1982–2015. NDVI seasonality and long-term trends were analysed for different types of land use: arable land, pastures, wetlands, mixed and coniferous forests. In the southwestern part of the study area, the growing season lasts longest, while in the northeast, the growing season is shorter on average by 10 weeks than in the other parts of the analysed territory. The air temperature in February and March is the most important factor determining the start of the growing season and the air temperature in September and October determines the end date of the growing season. Precipitation has a much smaller effect, especially at the beginning of the growing season. The effect of meteorological conditions on peak greenness is weak and, in most cases, statistically insignificant. At the end of the analysed period (1982–2015), the growing season started earlier and ended later (in both cases the changes were 3–4 weeks) than at the beginning of the study period. All these changes are statistically significant. The duration of the growing season increased by 6–7 weeks

NMR and XRD Study of Hydrogen Bonding in Picolinic Acid N-Oxide in Crystalline State and Solutions: Media and Temperature Effects on Potential Energy Surface

Solvent and temperature effects on H-bonding in crystalline picolinic acid N-oxide (PANO) and in solutions were studied by NMR (H-1 MAS and H-1-C-13 CP/MAS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) methods. The single-crystal XRD experiments on beta-polymorph were carried out at 105 and 299 K. C-13 chemical shifts of PANO pyridine ring carbons were chosen as an effective diagnostic tool for the H-bond sensing. The crystal field in PANO forces the proton displacement from donor to acceptor atoms much stronger than the solvent reaction field, including that created by the most polar solvents. NMR and XRD data for crystalline PANO do not confirm any H-bond geometry changes in the studied temperature range. On the contrary, a considerable contraction of r(O-H) bond was observed for PANO in acetonitrile (ACN) solution upon heating. The relative contraction of r(O-H) bond with respect to R(O center dot center dot center dot O) perfectly fits the global dielectric scheme deduced for a vast set of common solvents and the dependence of the dielectric permittivity of ACN on temperature. The subtle H-bond changes can be explained by the temperature dependence of the shape of potential energy surface in the liquid state. Both factors, temperature and dielectric permittivity, are comparable in triggering this effect