On the statistics of urban heat island intensity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 5486-5491

  Zhou, B ^a   Rybski, D ^a   Kropp, J P ^a,b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

city cluster; city size; Europe; seasonality; statistics; urban heat island

Indexed keywords

CITY CLUSTER; CITY SIZES; EUROPE; SEASONALITY; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; STATISTICS;

THERMAL POLLUTION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEAT CAPACITY; HEAT ISLAND; HEAT SOURCE; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONALITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; URBAN AREA;

EUROPE;

EID: 84885509514     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL057320     Document Type: Article

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