Impact of urbanization on US surface climate

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Bounoua, Lahouari ^a   Zhang, Ping ^a,b,e   Mostovoy, Georgy ^a,b   Thome, Kurtis ^a   Masek, Jeffrey ^a   Imhoff, Marc ^b   Shepherd, Marshall ^c   Quattrochi, Dale ^d   Santanello, Joseph ^a   Silva, Julie ^b   Wolfe, Robert ^a   Toure, Ally Mounirou ^a,e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e Science System and Applications Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Modeling; Surface runoff; Urban carbon; Urban heat island; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; MODELS; RUNOFF;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; IMPACT ON SURFACES; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; MEAN TEMPERATURE; SURFACE RUNOFFS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; URBANIZATION;

URBAN GROWTH;

ARID REGION; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; LANDSAT; MODIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA];

EID: 84948389425     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/084010     Document Type: Article

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