Urbanization Effects in Estimating Surface Air Temperature Trends in the Contiguous United States

In the past century, local-scale warming caused by a strengthening urban heat island effect has brought inevitable systematic bias to observational data from surface weather stations located in or near urban areas. In this study, the land use situation around U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) s...

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Published in:	Land
Main Authors:	Siqi Huang, Guoyu Ren, Panfeng Zhang
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2024-03-01
Subjects:	urbanization effect surface air temperature temperature trend contiguous United States observation data machine learning
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/3/388