A new estimation of urbanization's contribution to the warming trend in China

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 8923-8938

  Wang, Fang ^a   Ge, Quansheng ^a   Wang, Shaowu ^b   Li, Qingxiang ^c   Jones, Philip D ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Heat islands; Surface observations; Time series

Indexed keywords

RURAL AREAS; TIME SERIES;

CLIMATE WARMING; HEAT ISLAND; RURAL STATIONS; SURFACE OBSERVATION; URBAN AND RURAL; URBAN AND RURAL AREAS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN STATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HEAT ISLAND; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION; WARMING;

CHINA;

EID: 84949987391     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00427.1     Document Type: Article

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