Analyzing the heat island magnitude and characteristics in one hundred Asian and Australian cities and regions.

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• Publication year

  2015

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  Science of the Total Environment

• Publication date

  2015-04-15

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.01.060PMID 25647373
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