A multi-city analysis of the UHI-influence on warm season rainfall

Urban Climate

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-23

  Ganeshan, Manisha ^a   Murtugudde, Raghu ^a,b   Imhoff, Marc L ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Diurnal trend; Extreme positive rainfall anomaly; Inland and coastal cities; Nocturnal instability; Propagating and non propagating storms; Urban Heat Island

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888202963     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2013.09.004     Document Type: Article

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