## Abstract Throughout the tropics, population movements, urban growth, and industrialization are causing conditions that result in elevated temperatures within urban areas when compared with that in surrounding rural areas, a phenomenon known as the urban heat island (UHI). One such example is the
Empirical relationships between land use/cover and estuarine condition in the Northeastern United States
β Scribed by Wilfrid Rodriguez; Peter V. August; Yeqiao Wang; John F. Paul; Arthur Gold; Norman Rubinstein
- Book ID
- 106450429
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 391 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0921-2973
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