Satellite observations of wind farm impacts on nocturnal land surface temperature in Iowa

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12234-12246

  Harris, Ronald A ^a   Zhou, Liming ^a   Xia, Geng ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Land surface temperature; Wind farm impact

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920085881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61212234     Document Type: Article

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