Empirical study on temporal variations of canopy-level Urban Heat Island effect in the tropical city of Greater Kuala Lumpur

• Main Authors: Ramakreshnan, Logaraj, Aghamohammadi, Nasrin, Fong, Chng Saun, Ghaffarianhoseini, Amirhosein, Wong, Li Ping, Sulaiman, Nik Meriam
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: R Medicine; TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/20005/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2018.10.039

A very few studies have evaluated and understood the temporal dynamics of UHI in many expanding tropical cities. Hence, this study investigated the temporal variations of canopy-level UHI in selected urban stations, namely Petaling Jaya (PJ) and Subang (SUB), of Greater Kuala Lumpur (GKL) using 2016...