Evidence of horizontal urban heat advection in London using six years of data from a citizen weather station network.

ABSTRACT: Recent advances in citizen weather station (CWS) networks, with data accessible via crowd-sourcing, provide relevant climatic information to urban scientists and decision makers. In particular, CWS can provide long-term measurements of urban heat and valuable information on spatio-temporal heterogeneity related to horizontal heat advection. In this study, we make the first compilation of a quasi-climatologic dataset covering six years (2015-2020) of hourly near-surface air temperature measurements obtained via 1560 suitable CWS in a domain covering south-east England and Greater London. We investigated the spatio-temporal distribution of urban heat and the influences of local environments on climate, captured by CWS through the scope of Local Climate Zones (LCZ)-a land-use land-cover class

SUBMITTER: Brousse O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10437006 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature