Observations of urban heat island advection from a high-density monitoring network

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 142, Issue 699, 2016, Pages 2434-2441

  Bassett, Richard ^a   Cai, Xiaoming ^a   Chapman, Lee ^a   Heaviside, Clare ^a,b   Thornes, John E ^a,b   Muller, Catherine L ^a   Young, Duick T ^c   Warren, Elliott L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

advection; heat; sensors; temperature; urban; urban heat advection; urban heat island; wind

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; GLOBAL WARMING; HEATING; RISK MANAGEMENT; SENSORS; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

HEAT ADVECTION; METEOROLOGICAL RECORDS; MONITORING NETWORK; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; URBAN; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ADVECTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT ISLAND; MONITORING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN CLIMATE; WIND FIELD;

BIRMINGHAM [BIRMINGHAM (DST)]; BIRMINGHAM [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84973550036     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2836     Document Type: Article

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