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SUBMITTER: Venter ZS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8153720 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Venter Zander S ZS Chakraborty Tirthankar T Lee Xuhui X
Science advances 20210526 22
The ubiquitous nature of satellite data has led to an explosion of studies on the surface urban heat island (SUHI). Relatively few have simultaneously used air temperature measurements to compare SUHI with the canopy UHI (CUHI), which is more relevant to public health. Using crowdsourced citizen weather stations (>50,000) and satellite data over Europe, we estimate the CUHI and SUHI intensity in 342 urban clusters during the 2019 heat wave. Satellites produce a sixfold overestimate of UHI relati ...[more]