Assessing seasonality in the surface urban heat island of London

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 493-505

  Zhou, Bin ^a   Lauwaet, Dirk ^b   Hooyberghs, Hans ^b   De Ridder, Koen ^b   Kropp, Jürgen P ^a,c   Rybski, Diego ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Heat islands; Surface temperature; Urban meteorology

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE MODELS; HYSTERESIS; LANDFORMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE; HEAT ISLAND; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SATELLITE BASED OBSERVATIONS; SENSITIVITY SIMULATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE URBAN HEAT ISLANDS; URBAN METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; HEAT ISLAND; SEASONALITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84961578457     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0041.1     Document Type: Article

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