A Comparison of Two Methods on the Climatic Effects of Urbanization in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Area

Both the “urban minus rural” (UMR) and the “observation minus reanalysis” (OMR) methods were used to quantify the potential impacts of urbanization on regional temperature changes in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan area in China. DMSP/OLS nighttime light imagery and population census data wer...

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Main Authors: Mingna Wang, Xiaodong Yan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Advances in Meteorology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/352360