Estimating the urban heat island contribution to urban and rural air temperature differences over complex terrain: Application to an Arid city

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2159-2166

  Saaroni, Hadas ^a   Ziv, Baruch ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; COMBINED EFFECT; COMPLEX TERRAINS; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; HEAT STRESS; IN-LINE; INHOMOGENEITIES; LINEAR RELATION; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; REGIONAL WARMING; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TIME-PERIODS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN-RURAL; ZERO POPULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEAT FLUX; LANDFORMS; RURAL AREAS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARID ENVIRONMENT; CANOPY; COMPLEX TERRAIN; HEAT ISLAND; INHOMOGENEITY; RURAL ATMOSPHERE; SUMMER; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WINTER;

BEER SHEVA; ISRAEL; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 77958508823     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2473.1     Document Type: Article

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