Quantifying the effects of settlement size on urban heat islands in fairly uniform geographic areas

Habitat International

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 100-106

  Tan, Minghong ^a   Li, Xiubin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

City size; Effects; Plain area; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

HEAT ISLAND; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAND USE; SIZE EFFECT; URBAN CLIMATE;

EID: 84934877622     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.05.013     Document Type: Article

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