Data concurrency is required for estimating urban heat island intensity

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 208, Issue , 2016, Pages 118-124

  Zhao, Shuqing ^a   Zhou, Decheng ^a   Liu, Shuguang ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrency of data; Definition of UHI; Mapping urban extent; Urban expansion; Urban heat island (UHI)

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; THERMAL POLLUTION; URBAN PLANNING;

BOUNDARY EXPANSION; CONCURRENCY OF DATA; DEFINITION OF UHI; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; URBAN EXPANSION; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN HEAT ISLAND INTENSITIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT ISLAND; MAPPING; MODIS; URBAN CLIMATE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; DATA CONCURRENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GEOGRAPHY; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; CITY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEAT; PROCEDURES;

CHINA;

CHINA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; HOT TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84958874332     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.07.037     Document Type: Article

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