Quantifying urban heat island intensity in Hong Kong SAR, China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 4383-4398

  Siu, Leong Wai ^a   Hart, Melissa A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hong Kong; Landscape classification; Local climate zone; Meteorological networks; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; HEAT ISLAND INTENSITIES; HONG KONG OBSERVATORIES; HONG-KONG; LOCAL CLIMATE; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN HEAT ISLAND INTENSITIES;

OBSERVATORIES; URBAN GROWTH; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

THERMAL POLLUTION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLASSIFICATION; HEAT ISLAND; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RURAL LANDSCAPE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HONG KONG; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METEOROLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBANIZATION; VALIDATION STUDY; WEATHER; WEATHER STATION; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEAT; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HONG KONG; HOT TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; WEATHER;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878354251     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2876-6     Document Type: Article

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