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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Main Author: Lima Alves, Elis (author)
Other Authors: Lopes, António (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2017
Subjects:
urban climate change
UHI
urban microclimates
mitigation
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/29138
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/29138

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http://hdl.handle.net/10451/29138

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