Contrasting characteristics of the surface energy balance between the urban and rural areas of Beijing

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 505-514

  Wang, Linlin ^a,b   Gao, Zhiqiu ^a   Miao, Shiguang ^c   Guo, Xiaofeng ^a   Sun, Ting ^d   Liu, Maofeng ^e   Li, Dan ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

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

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Princeton University   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aerosol load; cloud; evapotranspiration; surface energy balance; urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922476387     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: 18619533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-014-3222-4     Document Type: Article

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