A historical review and assessment of urban heat island research in Singapore

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 381-397

  Roth, Matthias ^a   Chow, Winston T L ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Singapore; Tropical; Urban heat island; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

HEAT ISLAND; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RAINFOREST; RESEARCH WORK; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SECONDARY FOREST; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

SINGAPORE [SINGAPORE (NTN)]; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 84869075538     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: 14679493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12003     Document Type: Article

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