Pseudovertical temperature profiles and the urban heat island measured by a temperature datalogger network in Phoenix, Arizona

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-13

  Fast, Jerome D ^a   Torcolini, Joel C ^b   Redman, Randy ^c  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Arizona Department of Environmental Quality   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AIR QUALITY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; METEOROLOGY; WIND;

METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR QUALITY; HEAT ISLAND; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; URBAN CLIMATE;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; PHOENIX; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

PHOENIX;

EID: 14644408794     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM-2176.1     Document Type: Article

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