Spatio-temporal evolution of urban thermal environment and its driving factors: Case study of Nanjing, China.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, with rapid urbanization, the underlying urban surface has changed dramatically. Various urban eco-environmental problems have emerged globally, among which the urban heat island effect has become one of the most obvious urban eco-environmental problems. In this study, Nanjing, China, was chosen as the study area. Based on Landsat 8 remote sensing image data collected in Nanjing from 2014 to 2018, land surface temperatures were retrieved, the spatiotemporal variation track and characteristics of the thermal environment pattern were systematically depicted, and the driving factors of these variations were revealed. The results show that over the past five years, the spatial pattern of the heat field in Nanjing changed from a scattered distribution in the periphery of the cit

SUBMITTER: Zhang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8096077 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature