Concepedia

Dynamics and controls of urban heat sink and island phenomena in a desert city: Development of a local climate zone scheme using remotely-sensed inputs

Ahmed K. Nassar, George Alan Blackburn, Duncan Whyatt

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · 2016 · 102 citations · 34 references

Concepts

ClimatologyUrban GeographyRegional Climate ResponseEarth ScienceIsland PhenomenaEngineeringUrban Heat SinkGeographyUrban Heat IslandClimate DynamicsRemote SensingDesert CityUrban Heat MitigationUrban ClimatologyUrban ClimateSocial SciencesClimate Change

References

34

Local Climate Zones for Urban Temperature Studies

Iain D. Stewart, T. R. Oke · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2012 · 4K citations

Engineering, Urban Climate Impact, Urban Heat Island +23

Thermal remote sensing of urban climates

James Voogt, T. R. Oke · Remote Sensing of Environment · 2003 · 3K citations

Engineering, Geography, Remote Sensing +6

A generalized split-window algorithm for retrieving land-surface temperature from space

Zhengming Wan, Jeff Dozier · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · 1996 · 1.8K citations

Engineering, Earth Science, Social Sciences +19

Comparison of impervious surface area and normalized difference vegetation index as indicators of surface urban heat island effects in Landsat imagery

Fei Yuan, Marvin E. Bauer · Remote Sensing of Environment · 2006 · 1.5K citations

Climatology, Engineering, Land Use +12

Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect across biomes in the continental USA

Marc L. Imhoff, Ping Zhang, Robert E. Wolfe et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment · 2009 · 1.5K citations

Continental Usa, Ground Heat Flux, Earth Science +10