Combined vegetation volume and "greenness" affect urban air temperature

Applied Geography

Volumn 71, Issue , 2016, Pages 106-114

  Davis, Amélie Y ^a,b   Jung, Jinha ^b,c   Pijanowski, Bryan C ^d   Minor, Emily S ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D; Cook County; LiDAR; NDVI; Nighttime temperature; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; HEAT ISLAND; LIDAR; NDVI; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; VEGETATION;

COOK COUNTY [ILLINOIS]; ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84966333699     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2016.04.010     Document Type: Article

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