Assessment of urban effect on observed warming trends during 1955–2012 over China: a case of 45 cities

Climatic Change

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 631-643

  Jin, Kai ^a   Wang, Fei ^a,b   Chen, Deliang ^c   Jiao, Qiao ^a   Xia, Lei ^b,d   Fleskens, Luuk ^e,f   Mu, Xingmin ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY;

DOMINATING FACTORS; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; TEMPERATURE TRENDS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBURBAN AREA; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TREND ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION; WARMING; WIND DIRECTION;

CHINA;

EID: 84942501559     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1446-7     Document Type: Article

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