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The footprint of urban heat island effect in China

Urban heat island (UHI) is one major anthropogenic modification to the Earth system that transcends its physical boundary. Using MODIS data from 2003 to 2012, we showed that the UHI effect decayed exponentially toward rural areas for majority of the 32 Chinese cities. We found an obvious urban/rural...

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Published in:Sci Rep
Main Authors: Zhou, Decheng, Zhao, Shuqing, Zhang, Liangxia, Sun, Ge, Liu, Yongqiang
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4461918/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26060039
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep11160
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