Assessment of surface air warming in northeast China, with emphasis on the impacts of urbanization

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 99, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 469-478

  Li, Qingxiang ^a   Li, Wei ^b   Si, Peng ^a,c   Xiaorong, Gao ^a,d   Dong, Wenjie ^e   Jones, Phil ^f   Huang, Jiayou ^g   Cao, Lijuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^c Tianjing Municipal Meteorological Information Center   (China)

^d LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^g PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT ISLAND; TREND ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION; WARMING;

CHINA;

EID: 73149110614     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0155-4     Document Type: Article

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