The role of city size and urban form in the surface urban heat island

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Zhou, Bin ^a   Rybski, Diego ^a   Kropp, Jürgen P ^a,b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH PIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

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EID: 85021993373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04242-2     Document Type: Article

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