The urbanheat island effect and the role of vegetation to address the negative impacts of local climate changes in a small brazilian city

his study analyzes the influence of urban-geographical variables on determining heat islands and proposes a model to estimate and spatialize the maximum intensity of urban heat islands (UHI). Simulations of the UHI based on the increase of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), using multipl...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lima Alves, Elis (author)
Outros Autores: Lopes, António (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2017
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/29138
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/29138