Past and future changes in the climate of Hong Kong

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 163-175

  Ginn, Wing Lui ^a   Lee, Cheung ^a   Chan, Kin Yu ^a  

^a Hong Kong Observatory   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate projections; Hong Kong climate; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; METEOROLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; URBANIZATION;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 78650674291     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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