Implications of temporal change in urban heat island intensity observed at Beijing and Wuhan stations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Ren, G Y ^a   Chu, Z Y ^a   Chen, Z H ^b   Ren, Y Y ^a  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; STATISTICS; URBAN PLANNING;

SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; URBANIZATION; WARMING;

METEOROLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT ISLAND; TEMPORAL RECORD; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URBANIZATION;

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

EID: 34249908651     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027927     Document Type: Article

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