Lower Urban Humidity Moderates Outdoor Heat Stress
Abstract Surface temperature is often used to examine heat exposure in multi‐city studies and for informing urban heat mitigation efforts due to scarcity of urban air temperature measurements. Cities also have lower relative humidity, traditionally not accounted for in large‐scale observational urba...
Main Authors: | T. Chakraborty, Z. S. Venter, Y. Qian, X. Lee |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2022-10-01
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Series: | AGU Advances |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1029/2022AV000729 |
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