Summer average urban-rural surface temperature differences do not indicate the need for urban heat reduction
Alberto Martilli, Matthias Roth, Winston Chow, Matthias Demuzere, Mathew Lipson, E. Scott Krayenhoff, David J. Sailor, Negin Nazarian, James Voogt, Hendrik Wouters, Ariane Middel, Iain D. Stewart, Benjamin Bechtel, Andreas Christen, Melissa Hart
Abstract
This is a comment to the paper "Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population" by Manoli et al. (2019, Nature 573 p. 55-60; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1512-9)
Topics & Concepts
Reduction (mathematics)Urban heat islandEnvironmental scienceSurface (topology)GeographyAtmospheric sciencesMeteorologyMathematicsPhysicsGeometryUrban Heat Island MitigationRemote Sensing and Land UseLand Use and Ecosystem Services