Day-of-the-week variations of urban temperature and their long-term trends in Japan

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 393-401

  Fujibe, Fumiaki ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA ACQUISITION; METEOROLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TREND ANALYSIS; URBAN CLIMATE;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; OSAKA [KINKI];

EID: 78249261815     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-010-0266-y     Document Type: Article

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