Urbanization and rainfall variability in the Beijing metropolitan region

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2219-2235

  Zhang, Yan ^a,b   Smith, James A ^a   Luo, Lifeng ^c   Wang, Zifa ^b   Baeck, Mary Lynn ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Land use; Mesoscale models; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; LAND COVER; LAND USE; MESOSCALE MOTION; METROPOLITAN AREA; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TRMM; URBANIZATION;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84915774426     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-0180.1     Document Type: Article

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