Urban heat islands and landscape heterogeneity: Linking spatiotemporal variations in surface temperatures to land-cover and socioeconomic patterns

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-33

  Buyantuyev, Alexander ^a,b,c   Wu, Jianguo ^a,b,c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Geographically weighted regression; Land cover; Surface temperature; Surface urban heat island; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

HEAT ISLAND; HETEROGENEITY; LAND COVER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; URBANIZATION;

SONORAN DESERT;

EID: 73649086213     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9402-4     Document Type: Article

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