TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zhou, Bin
A1  - Rybski, Diego
A1  - Kropp, Jürgen
T1  - On the statistics of urban heat island intensity
T2  - Geophysical research letters
N2  - We perform a systematic study of all cities in Europe to assess the Urban Heat Island (UHI) intensity by means of remotely sensed land surface temperature data. Defining cities as spatial clusters of urban land cover, we investigate the relationships of the UHI intensity, with the cluster size and the temperature of the surroundings. Our results show that in Europe, the UHI intensity in summer has a strong correlation with the cluster size, which can be well fitted by an empirical sigmoid model. Furthermore, we find a novel seasonality of the UHI intensity for individual clusters in the form of hysteresis-like curves. We characterize the shape and identify apparent regional patterns.
Y1  - 2013
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/34652
SN  - 0094-8276
SN  - 1944-8007
VL  - 40
IS  - 20
SP  - 5486
EP  - 5491
PB  - American Geophysical Union
CY  - Washington
ER  -