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A Comparison of Two Methods on the Climatic Effects of Urbanization in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Area
Joint Authors
Source
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-12, 12 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-06-07
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
12
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
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 were used to classify stations into four classes: rural, small city, medium city, and large city groups.
The regional average annual mean temperature was estimated to increase by 0.12°C decade−1 derived from urban warming, accounting for 40% of total climate warming from 1960 to 2009 using the UMR method.
The OMR method also indicates that rapid urbanization has a significant influence on surface warming trend although the urban warming intensity is dependent on reanalysis dataset.
The seasonal cycle patterns from all three datasets are consistent with each other, which is contrary to the UMR result owing to the cooling effect of agriculture activity in the rural stations confusing the UMR result.
So in this paper we found a deficiency of the UMR method where it would underestimate the effects of urbanization in summer.
In this regard, the results from the OMR method are relatively more convincing although we admit it still has many other problems.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Wang, Mingna& Yan, Xiaodong. 2015. A Comparison of Two Methods on the Climatic Effects of Urbanization in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Area. Advances in Meteorology،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1052708
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Wang, Mingna& Yan, Xiaodong. A Comparison of Two Methods on the Climatic Effects of Urbanization in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Area. Advances in Meteorology No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1052708
American Medical Association (AMA)
Wang, Mingna& Yan, Xiaodong. A Comparison of Two Methods on the Climatic Effects of Urbanization in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Area. Advances in Meteorology. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1052708
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1052708