Quantitative estimates of warming by urbanization in South Korea over the past 55 years (1954-2008)

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 32, 2011, Pages 5778-5783

  Kim, Maeng Ki ^a   Kim, Seonae ^b  

^a Kongju National University   (South Korea)

^b Applied Meteorology Research Team   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Empirical Orthogonal Function; Global warming; Korea; Mean temperature; Urban warming; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; KOREA; MEAN TEMPERATURE; URBAN WARMING; URBANIZATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LINEAR REGRESSION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LINEARITY; POPULATION GROWTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; URBANIZATION;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOUTH KOREA; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN WARMING; URBANIZATION;

KOREA;

EID: 80052335226     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.07.028     Document Type: Article

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