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Micrometeorological observations in an area of urban growth

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Stationary and mobile surveys of micrometeorological changes in the new town of Columbia, Maryland have been made since late 1967. These show the development, intensification, and expansion of an urban heat island. This phenomenon is principally attributable to the altered heat flux into and out of the soil caused by the change in surface characteristics. About half of the observed change of relative humidity can be assigned to decreased evapotranspiration as a result of replacing vegetation by stone and asphalt.

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  • East, C.: 1971, ‘Chaleur urbaine à Montréal’; paper presented at the 2nd Canadian Conference on Micrometeorology, Macdonald College, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, May 10–12, 1971.

  • Landsberg, H. E.: 1970, ‘Micrometeorological Temperature Differentiation through Urbanization’ inUrban climates, Techn. Note No. 108; World Meteorological Organization, pp. 129–136.

  • Maisel, T. N.: 1971,Early Micrometeorological Changes Caused by Urbanization; University of Maryland, M.S. Thesis (unpublished), 48 pp.

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  1. Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, Md., USA

    H. E. Landsberg & T. N. Maisel

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  1. H. E. Landsberg
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Contribution No. 56, Graduate Program in Meteorology.

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Landsberg, H.E., Maisel, T.N. Micrometeorological observations in an area of urban growth. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 2, 365–370 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02184776

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