Urban expansion and local land-cover change both significantly contribute to urban warming, but their relative importance changes over time

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 763-780

  Hu, Xiaofang ^a,b   Zhou, Weiqi ^a   Qian, Yuguo ^a   Yu, Wenjuan ^a,b  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Beijing; City size; Landsat; Local land cover; Mitigation; Scale; Urban heat island; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; GREENSPACE; HEAT ISLAND; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN SPRAWL; URBANIZATION;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 85007480772     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-016-0484-5     Document Type: Article

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