Floristic mapping data as a proxy for the mean Urban heat Island

Climate Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-58

  Bechtel, Benjamin ^a   Schmidt, Katharina Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ellenberg indicator values; Floristic mapping; Infrared thermography; Local climate zones; UHI predictors; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

CLOUD CONTAMINATION; DATA SETS; HEAT ISLAND; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INDICATOR VALUES; LOCAL CLIMATE; MAPPING DATA; NORMALISED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PLANT SPECIES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; TIME-PERIODS; UHI PREDICTORS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

THERMAL POLLUTION; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); VEGETATION;

MAPPING;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; FLORISTICS; HEAT ISLAND; NDVI; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EID: 80053244738     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01009     Document Type: Article

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