The contribution of urbanization to recent extreme heat events and a potential mitigation strategy in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan area

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 407-416

  Wang, Mingna ^a,b   Yan, Xiaodong ^a,c   Liu, Jiyuan ^d   Zhang, Xuezhen ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; HEAT ISLAND; LAND USE CHANGE; METROPOLITAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; HEBEI; TIANJIN;

EID: 84887319998     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0852-x     Document Type: Article

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