Effects of changes in observational sites position and surrounding urbanisation on the temperature time series of the city of Trento

Urban Climate

Volumn 10, Issue P3, 2014, Pages 509-529

  Giovannini, Lorenzo ^a,b   Zardi, Dino ^a,b   de Franceschi, Massimiliano ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b National Consortium of Universities for Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Physics (CINFAI)   (Italy)

^c Dioceses of Bolzano Bressanone   (Italy)

Author keywords

Temperature time series; Urban parameterisations; Urbanisation effects; Valley city; WRF model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927954966     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2014.04.003     Document Type: Article

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