Wintertime radiation and energy budget along an urbanization gradient in Montreal, Canada

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 137-152

  Bergeron, Onil ^a   Strachan, Ian B ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Albedo; Anthropogenic heat flux; Eddy covariance; Energy budget; Montreal; Snow; Urban climate; Wintertime

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ANTHROPOGENIC HEAT FLUX; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY BUDGETS; MONTREAL; URBAN CLIMATES; WINTERTIME;

BUDGET CONTROL; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION;

HEAT FLUX;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY BALANCE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; RADIATION BUDGET; RURAL AREA; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SNOW COVER; SUBURBAN AREA; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URBAN CLIMATE; URBANIZATION; WATER VAPOR; WINTER;

CANADA; MONTREAL; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84855337626     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2246     Document Type: Article

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