Urban heat islands in the Arctic cities: an updated compilation of in situ and remote-sensing estimations

Esau, Igor; Miles, Victoria; Soromotin, Andrey; Sizov, Oleg; Varentsov, Mikhail; Konstantinov, Pavel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-18-51-2021

Articles | Volume 18

https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-18-51-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-18-51-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18

03 May 2021

| 03 May 2021

Urban heat islands in the Arctic cities: an updated compilation of in situ and remote-sensing estimations

Igor Esau, Victoria Miles, Andrey Soromotin, Oleg Sizov, Mikhail Varentsov, and Pavel Konstantinov

Data sets

Arctic surface Urban Heat Island (UHI), MODIS Land Surface Temperature (LST) data, 2000-2016 V. Miles https://doi.org/10.18739/A2TB0XW4T

Short summary

Persistent warm urban temperature anomalies – urban heat islands – significantly enhance already amplified climate warming in the Arctic. This study presents the surface urban heat islands in all circum-Arctic settlements with more than 3000 inhabitants. It reveals strong and persistent urban temperature anomalies during both summer and winter seasons that vary in different cities from 0.5 °C to more than 6.0 °C.