Impact of Urbanization and Land-Use Change on Surface Climate in Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River, 1988–2008

Table 1

Land-use conversion matrix for non-built-up area to built-up area.

		CU	FO	GR	WA	UN
	BU

Note: CU, FO, GR, WA, UN, and BU refer to cultivated land, forestry, grassland, water bodies, unused land, and built-up area, respectively. and refer to the area and proportion of conversion from each land cover to built-up area, respectively, during to . Hence, represents the amount of conversion from cultivated land to built-up area during the time to , and refers to the conversion rate from cultivated land to built-up area during the time to , and so on, which is calculated with the following equation: _.