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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
The authors wish to thank Brent Holben and Chris Justice of the GIMMS group at NASA/GSFC as well as 
Graham Farmer from the FEWS project for their useful comments on this research and to Jim Tucker for 
providing the AVHRR data. 
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