Research Article

Overestimating Impacts of Urbanization on Regional Temperatures in Developing Megacity: Beijing as an Example

Table 7

Area-weighted OMR temperature trend in Beijing from 1990 to 2010.

TypeOMR trendPixel amount of each type (ratio)Area-weighted OMR trend of each type (AW-OMR)Area-weighted OMR trend in Beijing

Unchanged forest (UF)−0.085211 (40.3%)−0.0340.020
Unchanged cropland (UC)−0.114117 (22.3%)−0.025
Unchanged urban area (UU)0.4388 (1.5%)0.007
Unchanged mix type (UM)0.025124 (23.7%)0.006
Urbanization from cropland (CCU)0.54864 (12.2%)0.067