Urbanization and heterogeneous surface warming in eastern China

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1363-1373

  Wu, Kai ^a   Yang, XiuQun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

eastern China; heterogeneous surface warming; maximum temperature; minimum temperature; surface air temperature; urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886091131     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-5627-8     Document Type: Article

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