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Quantifying the Daytime and Night-Time Urban Heat Island in Birmingham, UK: A Comparison of Satellite Derived Land Surface Temperature and High Resolution Air Temperature Observations

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Assessing surface albedo change and its induced radiation budget under rapid urbanization with Landsat and GLASS data

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Exploring indicators for quantifying surface urban heat islands of European cities with MODIS land surface temperatures

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