scholarly journals A case study of urbanization impact on summer precipitation in the Greater Beijing Metropolitan Area: Urban heat island versus aerosol effects

2015 ◽  
Vol 120 (20) ◽  
pp. 10,903-10,914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shi Zhong ◽  
Yun Qian ◽  
Chun Zhao ◽  
Ruby Leung ◽  
Xiu-Qun Yang
Author(s):  
Yukun WANG ◽  
Akiko NISHIMURA ◽  
Yuji SUGIHARA ◽  
Guoyun ZHOU ◽  
Yukiko HISADA ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (11) ◽  
pp. 2418-2433 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. E. Winguth ◽  
B. Kelp

AbstractHourly surface temperature differences between Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, metropolitan and rural sites have been used to calculate the urban heat island from 2001 to 2011. The heat island peaked after sunset and was particularly strong during the drought and heat wave in July 2011, reaching a single-day instantaneous maximum value of 5.4°C and a monthly mean maximum of 3.4°C, as compared with the 2001–11 July average of 2.4°C. This severe drought caused faster warming of rural locations relative to the metropolitan area in the morning as a result of lower soil moisture content, which led to an average negative heat island in July 2011 of −2.3°C at 1100 central standard time. The ground-based assessment of canopy air temperature at screening level has been supported by a remotely sensed surface estimate from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the Terra satellite, highlighting a dual-peak maximum heat island in the major city centers of Dallas and Fort Worth. Both ground-based and remotely sensed spatial analyses of the maximum heat island indicate a northwest shift, the result of southeast winds in July 2011 of ~2 m s−1 on average. There was an overall positive trend in the urban heat island of 0.14°C decade−1 in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area from 2001 to 2011, due to rapid urbanization. Superimposed on this trend are significant interannual and decadal variations that influence the urban climate.


2019 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 686-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niloufar Shirani-bidabadi ◽  
Touraj Nasrabadi ◽  
Shahrzad Faryadi ◽  
Adnan Larijani ◽  
Majid Shadman Roodposhti

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