The effects of urbanization on the rise of the European temperature since 1960

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 7716-7722

  Chrysanthou, A ^a,b   Van Der Schrier, G ^a   Van Den Besselaar, E J M ^a   Klein Tank, A M G ^a   Brandsma, T ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

climate change; Europe; urbanization

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; RURAL AREAS; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE ASSESSMENT; EUROPE; LAND COVER INFORMATIONS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MEAN TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; TEMPERATURE TRENDS; URBANIZATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; LAND COVER; LOW TEMPERATURE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84912123149     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061154     Document Type: Article

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