Scale-dependent response of the urban heat island to the European heatwave of 2018
Extreme heat continues to be a pressing challenge of the changing climate. The impacts of extreme heat manifest on two different spatio-temporal scales: (1) episodic continent-wide heatwaves (HWs) and (2) the city-scale urban heat island (UHI). As HWs are becoming more frequent, longer, and severe,...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2021-01-01
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Series: | Environmental Research Letters |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac25bb |