Climate change and its human dimensions based on GIS and meteorological statistics in Pearl River Delta, Southern China

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-122

  Dou, Haoyang ^a   Zhao, Xinyi ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic temperature; Land use type; Population density; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURES; BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE; LAND USE TYPE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NATIONAL CENTRES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; POPULATION DENSITIES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; TEMPERATURE SOUNDINGS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; DATA SET; GIS; LAND USE CHANGE; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER STATION;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 79951839482     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.219     Document Type: Article

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