Changes in wind speed under heat waves enhance urban heat islands in the Beijing metropolitan area

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2369-2375

  Li, Dan ^a   Sun, Ting ^b   Liu, Maofeng ^c   Wang, Linlin ^d   Gao, Zhiqiu ^d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Atmosphere land interaction; Climate change; Heat islands; Urban meteorology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY BALANCE; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LANDFORMS;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION MODELS; ATMOSPHERE-LAND INTERACTIONS; HEAT ISLAND; METROPOLITAN AREA; POSITIVE INTERACTION; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN METEOROLOGY; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT ISLAND; METEOROLOGY; METROPOLITAN AREA; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WIND VELOCITY;

BEIJING [BEIJING (ADS)]; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84998849962     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0102.1     Document Type: Article

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