Spatiotemporal variation in surface urban heat island intensity and associated Determinants across major Chinese cities

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 3670-3689

  Wang, Juan ^a   Huang, Bo ^a   Fu, Dongjie ^b   Atkinson, Peter M ^c,d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic heat discharge; Regression tree model; Surface urban heat island; Urban form; Urban surface characteristics

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC HEAT DISCHARGE; REGRESSION TREE MODELS; SURFACE URBAN HEAT ISLANDS; URBAN FORM; URBAN SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CHINA; HEAT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 84937926576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70403670     Document Type: Article

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