LINKING the LOCAL CLIMATE ZONES and LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE to INVESTIGATE the SURFACE URBAN HEAT ISLAND, A CASE STUDY of SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, U.S.

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The Local Climate Zones (LCZs) concept was initiated in 2012 to improve the documentation of Urban Heat Island (UHI) observations. Despite the indispensable role and initial aim of LCZs concept in metadata reporting for atmospheric UHI research, its role in surface UHI investigation also needs to be emphasized. This study incorporated LCZs concept to study surface UHI effect for San Antonio, Texas. LCZ map was developed by a GIS-based LCZs classification scheme with the aid of airborne Lidar dataset and other freely available GIS data. Then, the summer LST was calculated based Landsat imagery, which was used to analyse the relations between LST and LCZs and the statistical significance of the differences of LST among the typical LCZs, in order to test if LCZs are able to efficiently facilitate SUHI investigation. The linkage of LCZs and land surface temperature (LST) indicated that the LCZs mapping can be used to compare and investigate the SUHI. Most of the pairs of LCZs illustrated significant differences in average LSTs with considerable significance. The intra-urban temperature comparison among different urban classes contributes to investigate the influence of heterogeneous urban morphology on local climate formation.

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Zhao, C. (2018). LINKING the LOCAL CLIMATE ZONES and LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE to INVESTIGATE the SURFACE URBAN HEAT ISLAND, A CASE STUDY of SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, U.S. In ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (Vol. 4, pp. 277–283). Copernicus GmbH. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-3-277-2018

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