Temperature and Urban Vegetation
THE ROLE OF URBAN VEGETATION IN TEMPERATURE AND HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS IN QUERÉTARO CITY, MEXICO
... The vegetation cover examined in the present work had a seasonal effect on air temperature and reduced the UHI intensity, although LAI peaks were relatively low ...and vegetation types and their ...
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Urban vegetation and the drivers for change: a case study of Runcorn, UK
... Quercus robur and Prunus avium. However, climate change predictions suggest that by the 2080 the location where these species are expected to thrive is going to reduce and relocate to the west. Figure 2 shows that at ...
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Assessing the drivers shaping global patterns of urban vegetation landscape structure
... of vegetation existing in urban areas at the global scale and the drivers of these ...connected vegetation with a centre of the city with low vegetation ...on urban landscape patterns ...
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Changes in soil organic carbon contents and fractionations of forests along a climatic gradient in China
... with MAT, with inferences to increased proportion of physically and chemically more stable SOC with increas- ing MAT of the forest sites. With increasing MAT, the proportions of aromatic C and phenolic C had a ten- dency ...
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Ecofriendly Vegetative Planning for Vijayawada City (Aimed at minimizing urban air pollution)
... Ascorbic Acid Index (AAI): plants play an important role in monitoring and maintaining the ecological balance by actively participating in the cycling of nutrients and gases like CO2 and O2 and also provide enormous leaf ...
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PubMedCentral-PMC5389124.pdf
... Bohra-Mishra et al., 2014; Mueller et al., 2014). Although evidence of such effects is much more robust than it was only ten years ago, nearly all existing studies have been relatively narrow in geographic scope (for an ...
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A sensor view model to investigate the influence of tree crowns on effective urban thermal anisotropy
... crown vegetation when modelling radiative transfer in urban environments ...or vegetation temperatures required to populate a three-dimensional sensor view model, such as ...complex urban ...
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Retrieving Soil Moisture in Hebei by Using Temperature Vegetation Dryness Index
... surface temperature data and vegetation index ...the vegetation coverage at the early stage of vegetation growth, while the vegetation coverage is too low at the later stage of ...
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Biodiversity Conservation in Urbanising Forested Landscapes
... and urban) and distance to the urban boundary across urban-forest edges, we compiled detailed surveys at 12 treatment sites ...identified urban cover with high and low housing densities in a ...
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Visualising a comparison of simulated urban heat islands: a case study of two Slovakian cities
... orientation with the highest temperatures on south-eastern slopes irradiated by sun. The city centre was warmer than its surrounding and this was reflective of the UHI effect. On the contrary, the lowest ...
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Numerical Modeling of Urban Air Temperature
... the urban microclimates in Chongqing, China using historical weather data, transverse measurement and numerical ...the urban air temperature in ...the urban warming phenomenon by analyzing the ...
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Abstract: Maximally similar sets (MSS) are sets of elements that share a neighborhood in a
... spring temperature, summer temperature, and growing degree days of forest vegetation samples shows the greatest constraint on forest composition of a large set of candidate environmental ...
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Effects of Urban Sprawl on Temperature – A Case Study of Karachi
... According to an NGO report, number of houses in 2005 was about 2.1 million and by 2020 predicted to be 3.9 million. This precisely narrates 1.77 million households at an average size of seven people per household. Land ...
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Assessment of desertification hazard, risk and development of management plans
... (soil, vegetation, ...of vegetation cover) based on AHP and subjective ...soil, vegetation, climate and management were used for the preparation of desertification sensitivity ...
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Water Quality Criteria for Water Bodies in Urban Areas and Accompanying Changes in Surrounding and In Situ Vegetation: Considerations from the Landscape Aspect of Planning Water Recreational Areas
... the vegetation shown in Figure 2 may soothe people from their vantage point in the parking ...However, vegetation cover re- sults in the deterioration of water ...
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Temperature, ozone, and mortality in urban and non-urban counties in the northeastern United States
... and temperature data from all sites within a rectangular do- main that encompassed the tri-state area were spatially in- terpolated (kriging) to the 91 population-weighted county centroids (this is illustrated by ...
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Urban Vegetation Mapping from Fused Hyperspectral Image and LiDAR Data with Application to Monitor Urban Tree Heights
... 2) Urban tree heights then extracted from LiDAR data using urban vegetation class vector data as boundary, furthermore only trees with height more than equal to 1 meter and less than 30 meter ...
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Spatial Analysis of Post-Hurricane Katrina Thermal Pattern and Intensity in Greater New Orleans: Implications for Urban Heat Island Research
... LST vegetation abundance using the vegetation fraction method derived from a spectral mixture model based on a single ETM+ image from the year ...(green vegetation, dry soil, and shade) using the ...
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Three-tier detection and multi-level synergy for coastal mixed-land zone classification
... (ii) urban areas (Awrangjeb et ...an urban area consists mainly of high buildings and smaller vegetation ...an urban area may consist of more modern and sophisticated ...of vegetation ...
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Analytical Review of Land Use Changes by Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques in District Gujrat, Pakistan
... surface temperature. For urban temperature impact analysis, distinctive time series of Landsat images have been ...the temperature up to 2 0 ...
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