Surface Albedo in Cities: Case Study in Sapporo and Tokyo, Japan

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 539-553

  Sugawara, Hirofumi ^a   Takamura, Tamio ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airborne observation; Albedo; Real urban surfaces; Urban canopy

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; VEGETATION;

AIRBORNE OBSERVATIONS; ALBEDO; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; BUILDING STRUCTURE; MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS; SURFACE ALBEDO; URBAN CANOPIES; URBAN SURFACES;

SOLAR RADIATION;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ALBEDO; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; BUILDING; CANOPY; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

HOKKAIDO; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; SAPPORO; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 84911958429     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: 15731472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-014-9952-0     Document Type: Article

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