Contribution of urbanization to the increase of extreme heat events in an urban agglomeration in east China

Abstract The urban agglomeration of Yangtze River Delta (YRD) is emblematic of China's rapid urbanization during the past decades. Based on homogenized daily maximum and minimum temperature data, the contributions of urbanization to trends of summer extreme temperature indices (ETIs) in YRD are...

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Main Authors: Xuchao Yang, L. Ruby Leung, Naizhuo Zhao, Chun Zhao, Yun Qian, Kejia Hu, Xiaoping Liu, Baode Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-07-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074084
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