A Demonstration That Large-Scale Warming Is Not Urban From: Journal of Climate | Date: June 15, 2006| Author: Parker, David E | Copyright American Meteorological Society Jun 15, 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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On the premise that urban heat islands are strongest in calm conditions but are largely absent in windy weather, daily minimum and maximum air temperatures for the period 1950-2000 at a worldwide selection of land stations are analyzed separately for windy and calm conditions, and the global and regional trends are compared. The trends in temperature are almost unaffected by this subsampling, indicating that urban development and other local or instrumental influences have con...

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