Spatial and temporal variability of urban tree canopy temperature during summer 2010 in Berlin, Germany

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 373-384

  Meier, Fred ^a   Scherer, Dieter ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREE; VEGETATION;

BERLIN; GERMANY;

ACER PSEUDOPLATANUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; PLATANUS X ACERIFOLIA; POPULUS NIGRA; QUERCUS ROBUR;

EID: 84870296362     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0631-0     Document Type: Article

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