Microscale mobile monitoring of urban air temperature

Urban Climate

Volumn 18, Issue , 2016, Pages 58-72

  Tsin, Pak Keung ^a   Knudby, Anders ^b   Krayenhoff, E Scott ^c   Ho, Hung Chak ^d   Brauer, Michael ^a   Henderson, Sarah B ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Hot weather; Microscale measurements; Mobile monitoring; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998828031     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2016.10.001     Document Type: Article

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