Urbanization effects on the air temperature rise in Saudi Arabia

Climatic Change

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 109-122

  Almazroui, Mansour ^a   Islam, M Nazrul ^a   Jones, P D ^a,b  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CITY CENTERS; MARINE TEMPERATURES; POPULATION DATA; SAUDI ARABIA; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

POPULATION STATISTICS; URBAN GROWTH;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRPORT; DATA INTERPRETATION; ELEVATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; URBANIZATION;

SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84881610159     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0796-2     Document Type: Article

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