Evidence for a significant urbanization effect on climate in China.

By Liming Zhou, Robert E. Dickinson, Yuhong Tian, Jingyun Fang, Qingxiang Li, Robert K. Kaufmann, Compton J. Tucker, Ranga B. Myneni. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2004

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Urban growth dilemmas and solutions in China: Looking forward to 2030 (2016, background): “Along the accompanying circulation flow of capital and economic growth, the focus is no longer solely on agricultural production or living conditions and local governments now pay more attention to business development and direct rapid urbanization (Zhou et al., 2004; Lu, 2007).”
• Expansion and growth in Chinese cities, 1978–2010 (2014, background): “…and growth of cities lead to significant and lasting changes in local precipitation and temperature (Weng 2001, Kaufmann et al 2007), expansion of the urban heat island effect (Zhou et al 2004), reduced water quality (Shao et al 2006), and loss of arable land (Tan et al 2005, Seto et al 2012).”
• Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data (2020, background): “Also, the rapid urban expansion has a great impact on urban heat island (Zhou et al 2004, Clinton and Gong 2013), building energy use (Güneralp et al 2017), flooding (Li et al 2016, Zhang et al 2018), air pollution (Gong et al 2012, Zhang et al 2012), and urban ecosystem (Alberti et al 2017, Li et…”
• Phenological responses of plants to climate change in an urban environment (2007, background): “In China, significant change in the national climate was found to coincide with commencement of rapid economic growth since 1978 (Zhou et al. 2004).”
• Investigation of a coupling model of coordination between urbanization and the environment. (2012, background): “The spatial pattern and half of the observed decrease in diurnal temperature range are consistent with those of urbanization characterized by changes in urban area (Zhou et al., 2004; Kalnay and Cai, 2003).”
• Rice yields in tropical/subtropical Asia exhibit large but opposing sensitivities to minimum and maximum temperatures (2010, background): “Better understanding of the impacts of temperature at different points in the diurnal cycle is needed, because Tmin has been rising faster than Tmax in some important Asian rice-growing countries, including the two largest, China (9) and India (10), and is projected to continue doing so in the futur”