Urban climate effects on extreme temperatures in Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Schatz, Jason ^a   Kucharik, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; extreme heat; heat wave; urban climate; urban environment; urban heat island

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; RURAL AREAS;

EXTREME TEMPERATURES; HEAT WAVES; RURAL LANDSCAPES; TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY; URBAN CLIMATES; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN POPULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HEAT ISLAND; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL LANDSCAPE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN POPULATION;

MADISON; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84945208583     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/9/094024     Document Type: Article

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