Reduction in human activity can enhance the urban heat island: insights from the COVID-19 lockdown
The COVID-19 lockdowns drastically reduced human activity, emulating a controlled experiment on human–land–atmosphere coupling. Here, using a fusion of satellite and reanalysis products, we examine this coupling through changes in the surface energy budget during the lockdown (1 April to 15 May 2020...
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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/abef8e |