Does urbanization increase diurnal land surface temperature variation? Evidence and implications
The diurnal land surface temperature (LST) variation is a primary characteristic of the effects of urbanization. However, no study to date has focused on changes in diurnal LST variation in urban environments. This paper investigates the effects of urbanization on landscape pattern and diurnal LST variation of Taipei City, using MODIS thermal images and SPOT multispectral remote sensing images over the 1994â2010 period. Supervised land-cover classifications were conducted to investigate decadal land-cover changes within the study area.