Urban heat island effect on annual mean temperature during the last 50 years in China

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 79, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 165-174

  Li, Q ^a,c   Zhang, H ^a   Liu, X ^a   Huang, J ^b  

^a NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; HEAT ISLAND; URBAN AREA; WARMING;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

EID: 20444455448     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-004-0065-4     Document Type: Article

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