Analyzing the heat island magnitude and characteristics in one hundred Asian and Australian cities and regions

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 512-513, Issue , 2015, Pages 582-598

  Santamouris, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asian cities; Australian cities; Heat Island and population; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; THERMAL POLLUTION;

ASIAN CITIES; AUSTRALIAN CITIES; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS; HEAT ISLAND; HEAT ISLAND MAGNITUDE; SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES; STATISTICAL INFORMATION; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CANOPY; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT FLUX; HEAT ISLAND; URBAN AREA; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; URBAN POPULATION;

ARTICLE; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; CANOPY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN POPULATION; WEATHER;

ASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84922042491     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.01.060     Document Type: Article

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