Response to comment on "Surface urban heat island across 419 global big cities"

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 6889-6890

  Peng, Shushi ^a   Piao, Shilong ^a   Ciais, Philippe ^b   Friedlingstein, Pierre ^c   Ottle, Catherine ^b   Bréon, François Marie ^b   Nan, Huijuan ^a   Zhou, Liming ^d   Myneni, Ranga B ^e  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; CITY; CLIMATE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; HEAT; HUMAN; LETTER; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUBURBAN AREA; TELECOMMUNICATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION;

EID: 84862569616     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es301811b     Document Type: Letter

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1. Peng, S.; Piao, S.; Ciais, P; Friedlingstein, P.; Ottle, C; Bréon, F.-M.; Nan, H. J.; Zhou, L. M.; Myneni, R. Surface urban heat island across 419 global big cities. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2012, 46, 696-703.
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