Quantification of the urban heat island under a changing climate over Anatolian Peninsula

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 31-38

  Ozdemir, Huseyin ^a,f   Unal, Alper ^b   Kindap, Tayfun ^b   Turuncoglu, Ufuk Utku ^b   Durmusoglu, Zeynep Okay ^c   Khan, Maudood ^d   Tayanc, Mete ^e,f   Karaca, Mehmet ^b  

^a BAHCESEHIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TURKEY   (Turkey)

^d NATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^e CYPRUS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CONFLUENCE; HEAT ISLAND; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

TURKEY;

EID: 84859104332     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0515-8     Document Type: Article

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