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Spatio-temporal evolution of urban thermal environment and its driving factors: Case study of Nanjing, China
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...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8096077/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33945549 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246011 |
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author | Zhang, Menghan Dong, Suocheng Cheng, Hao Li, Fujia |
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description | 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 city to a centralized distribution in the centre of the city, and the heat island intensity increased annually. Changes in administrative divisions, changes in the layout of the transportation trunk lines, transfer of industrial centres, and ecological construction projects are important driving factors for the evolution of the land surface thermal environment patterns of these regions. These research results will provide scientific and technological support for similar cities with typical heat island effects elsewhere in the world to formulate urban development plan, and to improve the urban ecological environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-80960772021-05-17 Spatio-temporal evolution of urban thermal environment and its driving factors: Case study of Nanjing, China Zhang, Menghan Dong, Suocheng Cheng, Hao Li, Fujia PLoS One Research Article 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 city to a centralized distribution in the centre of the city, and the heat island intensity increased annually. Changes in administrative divisions, changes in the layout of the transportation trunk lines, transfer of industrial centres, and ecological construction projects are important driving factors for the evolution of the land surface thermal environment patterns of these regions. These research results will provide scientific and technological support for similar cities with typical heat island effects elsewhere in the world to formulate urban development plan, and to improve the urban ecological environment. Public Library of Science 2021-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8096077/ /pubmed/33945549 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246011 Text en © 2021 Zhang et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Zhang, Menghan Dong, Suocheng Cheng, Hao Li, Fujia Spatio-temporal evolution of urban thermal environment and its driving factors: Case study of Nanjing, China |
title | Spatio-temporal evolution of urban thermal environment and its driving factors: Case study of Nanjing, China |
title_full | Spatio-temporal evolution of urban thermal environment and its driving factors: Case study of Nanjing, China |
title_fullStr | Spatio-temporal evolution of urban thermal environment and its driving factors: Case study of Nanjing, China |
title_full_unstemmed | Spatio-temporal evolution of urban thermal environment and its driving factors: Case study of Nanjing, China |
title_short | Spatio-temporal evolution of urban thermal environment and its driving factors: Case study of Nanjing, China |
title_sort | spatio-temporal evolution of urban thermal environment and its driving factors: case study of nanjing, china |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8096077/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33945549 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246011 |
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