Spatial Characteristics of the Remotely-Sensed Surface Urban Heat Island in Baton Rouge, LA: 1988-2003
Our understanding of urban effects on local climate remains unsatisfactory due to several difficulties: 1) the inherent complexity of the city-atmosphere system, 2) lack of a clear conceptual theoretical framework for inquiry, and 3) the high expense and enormous difficulties of acquiring a sufficie...
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LSU
2006
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04052006-105847/ |