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

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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.