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Oct 2026
Vegetation Mitigation of Surface Urban Heat Islands in Three South American Cities: A Multi-Method Analysis
This study quantifies long-term surface urban heat island (SUHI) dynamics (2001–2016) in three climatically diverse South American metropolises—Buenos Aires (temperate), Bogotá (tropical highland), and Lima (arid coastal)—using MODIS data (0.05° resolution), comparing Streutker’s Gaussian model with a quantile-based ap...
Leonel De la Cruz-Cerrón, J. Ángeles-Suazo, J. F. Flores-Rojas et al.
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