Impact of Megacity Shanghai on the Urban Heat-Island Effects over the Downstream City Kunshan

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 411-426

  Kang, Han Qing ^a   Zhu, Bin ^a   Zhu, Tong ^b,c   Sun, Jia Li ^d   Ou, Jian Jun ^e  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Jiangsu Climate Center   (China)

^e Shanghai Meteorological Center   (China)

Author keywords

Upstream Effects; Urban Boundary Layer; Urban Dry Island; Urban Heat Island

Indexed keywords

RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

MESOSCALE MODEL SIMULATION; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; UPSTREAM EFFECTS; URBAN BOUNDARY LAYERS; URBAN DRY ISLAND; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CANOPY; HEAT ISLAND; LANDSCAPE; MEGACITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; URBANIZATION; WATER VAPOR; WESTERLY; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; JIANGSU; KUNSHAN; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84905705206     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-014-9927-1     Document Type: Article

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