Urban extent enhances extreme precipitation over the Pearl River Delta, China

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 310-317

  Wang, Dagang ^a   Jiang, Peng ^a   Wang, Guiling ^b   Wang, Dashan ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation coefficient; Extreme precipitation; Pearl River Delta; Urban extent

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921299583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl2.559     Document Type: Article

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