Daytime and nighttime urban heat islands statistical models for Atlanta

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 308-327

  Chun, Bumseok ^a   Guhathakurta, Subhrajit ^b  

^a TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Spatial analysis; Spatial regression; Urban canyon effect; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HEAT ISLAND; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STREET CANYON; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ATLANTA; GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85028619116     PISSN: 23998083     EISSN: 23998091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265813515624685     Document Type: Article

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