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

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