Geostatistical exploration of spatial variation of summertime temperatures in the Detroit metropolitan region

Environmental Research

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1046-1053

  Zhang, Kai ^a   Oswald, Evan M ^a   Brown, Daniel G ^a   Brines, Shannon J ^a   Gronlund, Carina J ^a   White Newsome, Jalonne L ^a   Rood, Richard B ^a   O'Neill, Marie S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Impervious surface; Kriging; Spatial interpolation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOSTATISTICS; GLOBAL WARMING; KRIGING; LAND COVER; LINEARITY; METEOROLOGY; METROPOLITAN AREA; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VARIOGRAM;

ARTICLE; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KRIGING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METEOROLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOT TEMPERATURE; LINEAR MODELS; MICHIGAN; SEASONS;

EID: 80755175702     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2011.08.012     Document Type: Article

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