To examine the effects of three urban density classes on Heat Stress (HS), the authors use an urban canyon model coupled to a land surface model to quantify present-day and projected mid-21st century rural and urban HS for boreal summer over the U.S. and southern Canada.
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Oleson, K. W., A. Monaghan, O. Wilhelmi, M. Barlage, N. Brunsell, J. Feddema, L. Hu and D. F. Steinhoff. 2015. Interactions between urbanization, heat stress, and climate change. Climatic Change 129(3-4): 525-541.
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2015
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