The role of vegetation in mitigating urban land surface temperatures: A case study of Munich, Germany during the warm season

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 4689-4706

  Alavipanah, Sadroddin ^a,b   Wegmann, Martin ^c   Qureshi, Salman ^a,b,d   Weng, Qihao ^e   Koellner, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Heat waves; Land surface temperature (LST); Surface urban heat island (SUHI); Urban vegetation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENSPACE; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; RURAL AREA; SUBURBAN AREA; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BAVARIA; GERMANY; MUNICH;

EID: 84929000768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su7044689     Document Type: Article

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