Weekly cycle of meteorological variations in Melbourne and the role of pollution and anthropogenic heat release

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1589-1603

  Simmonds, Ian ^a   Keay, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Anthropogenic heat; Day of the week variation; Heat island; Human influences; Statistical significance; Weekday weekend differences

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; WINTER;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

AUSTRALIA, VICTORIA, MELBOURNE;

ANTHROPOGENIC HEAT; HEAT ISLAND;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA ACQUISITION; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 0030616169     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(96)00344-5     Document Type: Article

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