Maximum urban heat island intensity in a medium-sized coastal Mediterranean city

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 107, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 407-416

  Papanastasiou, Dimitris K ^a   Kittas, Constantinos ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND REHABILITATION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; COOLING; CORRELATION; HEAT ISLAND; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; URBAN CLIMATE;

GREECE; MAGNESIA; THESSALY; VOLOS;

EID: 84856614780     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0491-z     Document Type: Article

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