Remote sensing of surface urban cool and heat island dynamics in Erbil, Iraq, between 1992 and 2013

The variation between surface and air temperature within a city and its surrounding area is a result of variations in surface cover, thermal capacity and 3-dimensional geometry. This study examines the spatiotemporal formation of the daytime Surface Urban Cool Island (SUCI) and night-time Surface Ur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rasul, Azad Othman
Other Authors: Balzter, Heiko ; Smith, Claire
Published: University of Leicester 2016
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.696151