Spatiotemporal dynamics of urban climate during the wet-dry season transition in a tropical African city.

ABSTRACT: The Urban Heat Island effect has been the focus of several studies concerned with the effects of urbanisation on human and ecosystem health. Humidity, however, remains much less studied, although it is useful for characterising human thermal comfort, the Urban Dryness Island effect and vegetation development. Furthermore, variability in microscale climate due to differences in land cover is increasingly crucial for understanding urbanisation effects on the health and wellbeing of living organisms. We used regression analysis to investigate the spatial and temporal dynamics of temperature, humidity and heat index in the tropical African city of Kampala, Uganda. We gathered data during the wet to dry season transition from 22 locations that represent the wide range of urban morphological dif

SUBMITTER: Kabano P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8807437 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature