The role of urban trees in reducing land surface temperatures in European cities

Document Outline

• The role of urban trees in reducing land surface temperatures in European cities
  • Results
    • LST differences
    • Urban trees for mitigating urban heat in Europe
    • Biophysical processes related to observed cooling patterns and differences between urban and rural vegetation
  • Discussion
  • Methods
    • Summary
    • Study domain
    • High-resolution urban tree, land-cover and topographic data of European cities
    • LST data
    • Albedo and ET
    • Calibrating statistical models to calculate temperature differences between vegetated land and urban areas
    • Estimating LST differences between vegetation and urban fabric for varying conditions
  • Data availability
  • Code availability
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • Author contributions
  • Competing interests
  • Additional information