Strong contributions of local background climate to urban heat islands

Lei Zhao, Xuhui Lee (), Ronald B. Smith and Keith Oleson
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Lei Zhao: Yale-NUIST Center on Atmospheric Environment, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Xuhui Lee: Yale-NUIST Center on Atmospheric Environment, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Ronald B. Smith: Yale University
Keith Oleson: National Center for Atmospheric Research

Nature, 2014, vol. 511, issue 7508, 216-219

Abstract: Climate modelling is used to show that for cities across North America, geographic variations in daytime urban heat islands—that is, the temperature differences between urban and adjacent rural areas—are largely explained by variations in the efficiency with which those areas convect heat to the lower atmosphere.

Date: 2014
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