Temporal characteristics of the Beijing urban heat island

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 87, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 213-221

  Liu, W ^a   Ji, C ^b   Zhong, J ^a   Jiang, X ^a   Zheng, Z ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b Beijing Meteorological Observatory   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; HEAT ISLAND; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 33750440195     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-005-0192-6     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. AJ Arnfield 2003 Two decades of urban climate research: A review of turbulence, exchanges of energy and water, and the urban heat island Int J Climatol 23 1-26 10.1002/joc.859
2. R Bornstein Q Lin 2000 Urban heat islands and summertime convective thunderstorms in Atlanta: Three case studies Atmos Environ 34 507-516 10.1016/S1352-2310(99)00374-X
3. X Fan 1991 The application and benefit of study on Beijing urban heat island by using remote sensing Missiles and Spacecraft 6 6-11 In Chinese
4. KC Goh CH Chang 1999 The relationship between height to width ratios and the heat island intensity at 22:00 h for Singapore Int J Climatol 19 1011-1023 10.1002/ (SICI)1097-0088(199907)19:9<1011::AID-JOC411>3.0.CO;2-U
5. CSB Grimmond TR Oke 1995 Comparison of heat fluxes from summertime observations in the suburbs of four North American cities J Appl Meteor 34 873-889 10.1175/1520-0450(1995)034<0873:COHFFS>2.0.CO;2
6. KM Hinkel FE Nelson AE Klene JH Bell 2003 The urban heat island in winter at Barrow, Alaska Int J Climatol 23 15 1889-1905 10.1002/joc.971
7. Howard L (1833) Climate of London deduced from meteorological observations, 3rd edn, vol. 1. Harvey and Darton, 348 pp
8. E Jauregui L Godinez F Cruz 1992 Aspects of heat-island development in Guadalajara, Mexico Atmos Environ (Part B. Urban Atmosphere) 26 391-396 10.1016/0957-1272(92)90014-J
9. TR Karl G Kukla VN Razuvayev 1991 Global warming: Evidence for asymmetric diurnal temperature change Geophys Res Lett 18 2253-2256
10. Y-H Kim J-J Baik 2002 Maximum urban heat island intensity in Seoul J Appl Meteor 41 651-659 10.1175/ 1520-0450(2002)041<0651:MUHIII>2.0.CO;2
11. Y Li J Zhang R Gu 2004 Research on the relationship between urban greening and the effect of urban heat island Chinese Landscape Architecture 1 72-75 In Chinese
12. Oke TR (ed) (1984) Proceedings of the Technical Conference: Urban climatology and its applications with special regard to tropical areas WMO No. 652. W. M. O., Geneva
13. TR Oke 1973 City size and the urban heat island Atmos Environ 7 769-779 10.1016/0004-6981(73)90140-6
14. TR Oke 1982 The energetic basis of the urban heat island Quart J Roy Meteor Soc 108 1-24 10.1256/smsqj.45501
15. TR Oke GT Johnson DG Steyn ID Watson 1991 Simulation of surface urban heat islands under 'ideal' conditions at night. Part 2: Diagnosis of causation Bound-Layer Meteor 56 339-358 10.1007/BF00119211
16. HS Park 1986 Features of the heat island in Seoul and its surrounding cities Atmos Environ 20 1859-1866 10.1016/0004-6981(86)90326-4
17. DR Streutker 2003 Satellite-measured growth of the urban heat island of Houston, Texas Remote Sensing Environ 85 282-289 10.1016/ S0034-4257(03)00007-5
18. J Thielen W Wobrock A Gadian 2000 The possible influence of urban surfaces on rainfall development: A sensitivity study in 2D in the meso-gamma-scale Atmos Res 54 15-39 10.1016/S0169-8095(00)00041-7
19. Q Weng D Lu J Schubring 2004 Estimation of land surface temperature-vegetation abundance relationship for urban heat island studies Remote Sensing Environ 89 467-483 10.1016/j.rse.2003.11.005
20. S Yamashita K Sekine M Shoda K Yamashita Y Hara 1986 On the relationships between heat island and sky view factor in the cities Tama river basin Japan Atmos Environ 20 681-686 10.1016/0004-6981(86)90182-4
21. Y Yang X Xu Y Weng 2003 Simulation of daily cycle of boundary layer heat island in Beijing J Appl Meteor Sci (China) 14 61-68 In Chinese
22. G Zhang X Xu J Wang Y Yang 2002 A study of characteristics and evolution of urban heat island over Beijing and its surrounding area J Appl Meteor Sci (China) 13 43-50 In Chinese
23. M Zhou S Qu Y Li X Song 1980 The characteristics of Urban heat island and circulation in Beijing, China J Geogr Sci (China) 5 12-18 In Chinese