Geographically weighted regression of the urban heat island of a small city

Applied Geography

Volumn 53, Issue , 2014, Pages 341-353

  Ivajnšič, Danijel ^a   Kaligarič, Mitja ^a   Žiberna, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Geographically weighted regression; Ljutomer; Ordinary least squares; Temperature differences; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; HEAT ISLAND; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URBAN CLIMATE;

LJUTOMER; SLOVENIA;

EID: 84904887942     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

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