Impact of urbanization on boundary layer structure in Beijing

Climatic Change

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 123-136

  Yu, Miao ^a,b   Liu, Yimin ^a   Dai, Yifeng ^a,b   Yang, Aqiang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER STRUCTURE; METEOROLOGICAL TOWER; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NIGHTTIME TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TEMPERATURE INVERSION LAYERS; TEMPERATURE STRATIFICATION; TURBULENT MIXING;

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT STORAGE; INVERSION LAYERS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; URBAN GROWTH;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE EFFECT; DIURNAL VARIATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; STRATIFICATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TEMPORAL CYCLE; TURBULENT MIXING; URBANIZATION; VERTICAL PROFILE; WEATHER STATION;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84881613949     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0788-2     Document Type: Article

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