Quantitative analysis of factors contributing to urban heat island intensity

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 842-854

  Ryu, Young Hee ^a   Baik, Jong Jin ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Urban meteorology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC HEAT; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; GEOMETRY FACTORS; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; MESOSCALE; MIDLATITUDES; RADIATION TRAPPING; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SEPARATION ANALYSIS; SINGLE LAYER; SUBFACTORS; URBAN CANOPY MODELS; URBAN GEOMETRY; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN METEOROLOGY; URBAN SURFACES; VERTICAL WALL; WIND SPEED;

EXPERIMENTS; GEOMETRY; SEPARATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; GEOMETRY; HEAT ISLAND; MESOSCALE EDDY; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 84864862389     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-098.1     Document Type: Article

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