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Relationships between Climate Parameters and Forest Vegetation At and Near Digya National Park, Ghana

Yaw A. Twumasi, Tommy L. Coleman, Andrew Manu, Edmund C. Merem, Albert Osei

International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · pp. 201–215 · Published 3 Oct 2011

10.9734/BJECC/2011/601

Abstract

This paper evaluates the effect of three climate parameters on forest cover in Ghana and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) at Digya National Park derived from Landsat image data. Climate data (temperature, humidity, dewpoint, rainfall) are assembled from statistics provided by Ghana's Meteorological Agency. The study introduces a weighted averaging method by computing weather information from neighbouring stations. Also, this research introduces a model of dewpoints, enabling the direct calculation of dewpoints from temperature and humidity data. The major finding is that while temperature significantly affects forest cover and Park vegetation, dew-points and rainfall do not. The paper suggests where future research may be more fruitful in analyzing the effects of climate on vegetation.

Forest cover vegetation NDV climate change temperature dewpoint rainfall remote sensing

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