WARMER URBAN CLIMATES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF GREEN SPACES IN NORTHERN SIBERIAN CITIES

• Main Authors: Igor Esau, Victoria Miles
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Lomonosov Moscow State University 2016
• Subjects: surface urban heat island (suhi); traditional ecological knowledge (tek); urban green spaces; satellite data analysis; modis; ndvi; siberia; Geography (General); G1-922; Nadym; Tazovsky; taiga; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2016-9-4-17-23; https://doaj.org/article/121a195700124b36bec987f7491a83ce

Modern human societies have accumulated considerable power to modify their environment and the earth’s system climate as the whole. The most significant environmental changes are found in the urbanized areas. This study considers coherent changes in vegetation productivity and land surface temperatu...