Detecting urban warming signals in climate records

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1143-1153

  He, Yuting ^a,b   Jia, Gensuo ^a   Hu, Yonghong ^c   Zhou, Zijiang ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

^d NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

air temperature; climate change; remote sensing; urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879234012     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-2135-3     Document Type: Article

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