The possible impact of urbanization on a heavy rainfall event in Beijing

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 8132-8143

  Yu, Miao ^a,b   Liu, Yimin ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^c JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FRONTAL FEATURE; LAND USE; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN CLIMATE; URBANIZATION;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84942191716     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023336     Document Type: Article

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