A case study of land-surface-temperature impact from large-scale deployment of wind farms in China from Guazhou

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Chang, Rui ^a,b   Zhu, Rong ^c   Guo, Peng ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^c China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

Land surface temperature impact; Large scale wind farm; MODIS data; Urban heat effect

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL EFFECTS; WIND POWER;

LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENT; LARGE-SCALE WIND FARMS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS DATA; NORTHWESTERN CHINA; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; WIND POWER PROJECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85017594803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8100790     Document Type: Article

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