On the statistics of urban heat island intensity
- 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.
| Author details: | Bin Zhou, Diego RybskiORCiDGND, Jürgen KroppORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1002/2013GL057320 |
| ISSN: | 0094-8276 |
| ISSN: | 1944-8007 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Geophysical research letters |
| Publisher: | American Geophysical Union |
| Place of publishing: | Washington |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2013 |
| Publication year: | 2013 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Volume: | 40 |
| Issue: | 20 |
| Number of pages: | 6 |
| First page: | 5486 |
| Last Page: | 5491 |
| Funding institution: | European Community [308497] |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Geowissenschaften |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften |
