Quantifying the daytime and night-time urban heat Island in Birmingham, UK: A comparison of satellite derived land surface temperature and high resolution air temperature observations

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Azevedo, Juliana Antunes ^a   Chapman, Lee ^a   Muller, Catherine L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Land surface temperature; Urban heat island; Urban meteorological networks

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; LANDFORMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL POLLUTION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY CLASS; HIGH RESOLUTION TEMPERATURE DATUM; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL DATASETS; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84962555483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8020153     Document Type: Article

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