A historical review and assessment of urban heat island research in Singapore

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: ROTH, Matthias, CHOW, Winston T. L.
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• الموضوعات: urban heat island; climate change; tropical; urbanization; Singapore; Environmental Sciences; Urban Studies and Planning
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3064; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4321/viewcontent/roth_chow_sjtg12.pdf

This historical review of 20 studies since the 1960s examines the influence of urban development on the thermal environment in Singapore, a fast growing tropical island city-state. Past observations are critically assessed with regard to experimental controls and station metadata. Given the availabi...