Summertime Urban Heat Island study for Guwahati City, India

Sustainable Cities and Society

Volumn 11, Issue , 2014, Pages 61-66

  Borbora, Juri ^a   Das, Apurba Kumar ^a  

^a TEZPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Guwahati; Urban Heat Island; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895900969     PISSN: 22106707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2013.12.001     Document Type: Article

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