Inclusion of urban landscape in a climate model

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 681-689

  Jin, Menglin ^a   Shepherd, J Marshall ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOMETERS; SNOW; WEATHER SATELLITES;

GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; URBAN LANDSCAPE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 20544464930     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-86-5-681     Document Type: Article

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