Crowdsourcing air temperature from citizen weather stations for urban climate research

Urban Climate

Volumn 19, Issue , 2017, Pages 170-191

  Meier, Fred ^a,b   Fenner, Daniel ^a,b   Grassmann, Tom ^a,b   Otto, Marco ^a,b   Scherer, Dieter ^a,b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Berlin; Crowdsourcing air temperature; Data quality assessment; Netatmo weather station; Urban climate observations; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011392041     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2017.01.006     Document Type: Article

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