Urban climate simulation by incorporating satellite-derived vegetation cover distribution into a mesoscale meteorological model

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 79, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 175-184

  Hirano, Yujiro ^a   Yasuoka, Yoshifumi ^b   Ichinose, Toshiaki ^c  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; HEAT ISLAND; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN CLIMATE; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 20444490390     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-004-0069-0     Document Type: Article

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