Homogeneity assessment of a station climate series (1933-2005) in the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo: Instruments change and urbanization effects

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 107, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 361-374

  Sugahara, Shigetoshi ^a   da Rocha, Rosmeri Porfirio ^b   Ynoue, Rita Yuri ^b   da Silveira, Reinaldo Bomfim ^c  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TREND ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION; WARMING;

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EID: 84856619614     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0485-x     Document Type: Article

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