Climate Response to Rapid Urban Growth: Evidence of a Human-Induced Precipitation Deficit
| contributor author | Kaufmann, Robert K. | |
| contributor author | Seto, Karen C. | |
| contributor author | Schneider, Annemarie | |
| contributor author | Liu, Zouting | |
| contributor author | Zhou, Liming | |
| contributor author | Wang, Weile | |
| date accessioned | 2017-06-09T17:03:04Z | |
| date available | 2017-06-09T17:03:04Z | |
| date copyright | 2007/05/01 | |
| date issued | 2007 | |
| identifier issn | 0894-8755 | |
| identifier other | ams-78572.pdf | |
| identifier uri | http://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4221256 | |
| description abstract | The authors establish the effect of urbanization on precipitation in the Pearl River Delta of China with data from an annual land use map (1988?96) derived from Landsat images and monthly climate data from 16 local meteorological stations. A statistical analysis of the relationship between climate and urban land use in concentric buffers around the stations indicates that there is a causal relationship from temporal and spatial patterns of urbanization to temporal and spatial patterns of precipitation during the dry season. Results suggest an urban precipitation deficit in which urbanization reduces local precipitation. This reduction may be caused by changes in surface hydrology that extend beyond the urban heat island effect and energy-related aerosol emissions. | |
| publisher | American Meteorological Society | |
| title | Climate Response to Rapid Urban Growth: Evidence of a Human-Induced Precipitation Deficit | |
| type | Journal Paper | |
| journal volume | 20 | |
| journal issue | 10 | |
| journal title | Journal of Climate | |
| identifier doi | 10.1175/JCLI4109.1 | |
| journal fristpage | 2299 | |
| journal lastpage | 2306 | |
| tree | Journal of Climate:;2007:;volume( 020 ):;issue: 010 | |
| contenttype | Fulltext |
