Spatial air temperature variations and urban land use - A statistical approach

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 135-149

  Eliasson, Ingegard ^a   Svensson, M K ^a  

^a Earth Sciences Centre   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; LAND USE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; URBAN GROWTH;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS; LAND USE DATABASE; LAND USE/LAND COVER; PLANNING APPLICATIONS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STEPWISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; LAND USE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE AREA; URBAN AREA;

GOTEBORG; SWEDEN; VASTRA GOTALAND;

EID: 7244252278     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482703002056     Document Type: Article

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