Urbanization Effects in Estimating Surface Air Temperature Trends in the Contiguous United States
Siqi Huang,
Guoyu Ren,
Panfeng Zhang
Abstract:In the past century, local-scale warming caused by a strengthening urban heat island effect has brought inevitable systematic bias to observational data from surface weather stations located in or near urban areas. In this study, the land use situation around U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) stations was used as a reference for rural station selection; stations with similar environmental conditions in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) were selected as reference stations using a machine lear… Show more
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