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AB - Climatic Change (2013) 120:123–136 DOI 10.1007/s10584-013-0788-2 Impact of urbanization on boundary layer structure in Beijing Miao Yu & Yimin Liu & Yifeng Dai & Aqiang Yang Received: 26 October 2012 /Accepted: 6 May 2013 /Published online: 1 June 2013 The Author(s) 2013. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract The Beijing meteorological tower is located in an area of Beijing, China, which has developed from a suburban to an inner city setting over the past 30 years. The impacts of this urbanization process on both the vertical profile and diurnal cycles of air temperature are investigated using hourly data collected from a series of monitoring levels (up to 325 m high) on the Beijing meteorological tower since 1984. We find that the inter-decadal temperature has increased gradually, and that a more significant increase occurred during the 1980s and 1990s due to the effects of urbanization. A well-defined change in temperature stratification was also observed over this period. The height of the temperature inversion layer decreased from the 1980s to the 2000s. A well-defined nighttime temperature inversion developed below 50 m during the summer in the 1980s, but this near-surface inversion is not seen in data from 
TI - Impact of urbanization on boundary layer structure in Beijing
JF - Climatic Change
DO - 10.1007/s10584-013-0788-2
DA - 2013-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/impact-of-urbanization-on-boundary-layer-structure-in-beijing-7huX2jIdgF
DP - DeepDyve
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