Exploring diurnal cycles of surface urban heat island intensity in Boston with land surface temperature data derived from GOES-R geostationary satellites.

Diel cycle Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite LST MODIS SUHI Thermal remote sensing

Journal

The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 Apr 2021
Historique:
received: 29 07 2020
revised: 01 11 2020
accepted: 23 11 2020
pubmed: 1 1 2021
medline: 1 1 2021
entrez: 31 12 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The surface urban heat island (SUHI) is one of the most significant human-induced alterations to the Earth's surface climate and can aggravate health risks for city dwellers during heat waves. Although the SUHI effect has received growing attention, its diurnal cycles (i.e., the variations over the full 24 h within the diel cycle) are poorly understood because polar-orbiting satellites (e.g., Landsat Series, Sentinel, Terra, Aqua) only provide one or two observations over each repeat cycle (e.g., 16 days) with constant overpass time for the same area. Geostationary satellites provide high-frequency land surface temperature (LST) observations throughout the day and the night, and thereby offer unprecedented opportunities for exploring the diurnal cycles of SUHI. Here we examined how the SUHI intensity varied over the course of the diurnal cycle in the Boston Metropolitan Area using LST observations from the NOAA's latest generation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-R). GOES-R LST was strongly correlated with MODIS LST (R

Identifiants

pubmed: 33383505
pii: S0048-9697(20)37755-X
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144224
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

144224

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

Yue Chang (Y)

Institute of Global Environmental Change, School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, China; Earth Systems Research Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA.

Jingfeng Xiao (J)

Earth Systems Research Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA. Electronic address: j.xiao@unh.edu.

Xuxiang Li (X)

Institute of Global Environmental Change, School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, China. Electronic address: xxli@xjtu.edu.cn.

Steve Frolking (S)

Earth Systems Research Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA.

Decheng Zhou (D)

Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Agricultural Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China.

Annemarie Schneider (A)

Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53726, USA.

Qihao Weng (Q)

Center for Urban and Environmental Change, Department of Earth and Environmental Systems, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809, USA.

Peng Yu (P)

Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center/Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA.

Xufeng Wang (X)

Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing of Gansu Province, Heihe Remote Sensing Experimental Research Station, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730000, China.

Xing Li (X)

Earth Systems Research Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA.

Shuguang Liu (S)

National Engineering Laboratory for Applied Technology of Forestry and Ecology in South China, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China.

Yiping Wu (Y)

Institute of Global Environmental Change, School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, China.

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