Urban planning indicators: Useful tools to measure the effect of urbanization and vegetation on summer air temperatures

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1236-1244

  Petralli, Martina ^a   Massetti, Luciano ^b   Brandani, Giada ^a   Orlandini, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMETEOROLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intra urban air temperature; Land use land cover; Local scale; Micro scale; Urban climate; Urban meteorological network; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; LAND USE/LAND COVER; LOCAL SCALE; MICRO-SCALE; URBAN CLIMATES;

FADING (RADIO); TOOLS; URBAN PLANNING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; GRASS; GREENSPACE; LAND COVER; LAND USE; SUMMER; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION;

FIRENZE [TUSCANY]; FLORENCE [FIRENZE]; ITALY; TUSCANY;

EID: 84900628621     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3760     Document Type: Article

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