Summer urban climate trends and environmental effect in the Beijing area

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 689-697

  Liu, Xi Ming ^a,b,c   Hu, Fei ^a   Li, Lei ^a,c   Wang, Yu ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b Jiangxi Meteorological Bureau   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental effect; Summer urban climate; Urban boundary layer; Urban Heat Island

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; HEAT ISLAND; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SUMMER; URBAN CLIMATE; URBANIZATION;

ASIA; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33749387906     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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