Local climate classification and Dublin's urban heat island

Atmosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 755-774

  Alexander, Paul J ^a   Mills, Gerald ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Local climate zones; Microclimatology; Urban geography; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; THERMAL POLLUTION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; LOCAL CLIMATE; MICROCLIMATOLOGY; NOCTURNAL TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS; URBAN AND RURAL; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; HEAT ISLAND; MICROCLIMATE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

COUNTY DUBLIN; IRELAND; LEINSTER;

EID: 84910635201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos5040755     Document Type: Article

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