Effects of spatial pattern of greenspace on urban cooling in a large metropolitan area of eastern China

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 128, Issue , 2014, Pages 35-47

  Kong, Fanhua ^a   Yin, Haiwei ^a   James, Philip ^b   Hutyra, Lucy R ^c   He, Hong S ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooling effect; Landscape metrics; Landscape pattern; Urban greenspace; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING SYSTEMS; CORRELATION METHODS; FORESTRY; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

COOLING EFFECTS; LANDSCAPE METRICS; LANDSCAPE PATTERN; URBAN GREENSPACE; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; GREENSPACE; HEAT ISLAND; METROPOLITAN AREA; MICROCLIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PLANTS;

CHINA; JIANGSU; NANJING [JIANGSU];

EID: 84901639292     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.04.018     Document Type: Article

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