Model analysis of urbanization impacts on boundary layer meteorology under hot weather conditions: a case study of Nanjing, China

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 125, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 713-728

  Chen, Lei ^a,c   Zhang, Meigen ^a   Wang, Yongwei ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; HEAT ISLAND; METEOROLOGY; MODELING; URBAN SPRAWL; URBANIZATION; WEATHER; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; JIANGSU; NANJING [JIANGSU];

EID: 84934779799     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-015-1535-6     Document Type: Article

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