A need to revisit hydrologic responses to urbanization by incorporating the feedback on spatial rainfall patterns

Urban Climate

Volumn 12, Issue , 2015, Pages 128-140

  Yang, Long ^a   Tian, Fuqiang ^a   Niyogi, Dev ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrologic response; Rainfall; Spatial heterogeneity; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929254249     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2015.03.001     Document Type: Article

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