Time series decomposition of remotely sensed land surface temperature and investigation of trends and seasonal variations in surface urban heat Islands

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2638-2657

  Quan, Jinling ^a,b   Zhan, Wenfeng ^c   Chen, Yunhao ^b   Wang, Mengjie ^b   Wang, Jinfei ^d  

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

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; COOLING; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEAT ISLAND; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; NOISE; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84962211047     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD024354     Document Type: Article

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