Two decades of urban climate research: a review of turbulence, exchanges of energy and water, and the urban heat island

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  International Journal of Climatology

• Publication date

  2003-01-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1002/JOC.859
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