Multi-scale impacts of 2D/3D urban building pattern in intra-annual thermal environment of Hangzhou, China

• Published in: International journal of applied earth observation and geoinformation Vol. 104; p. 102558
• Main Authors: Lu, Huimin, Li, Fei, Yang, Gang, Sun, Weiwei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 15.12.2021; Elsevier
• Subjects: autumn; Hangzhou; heat island; Land surface temperature; Machine learning; Multi-dimensional urban morphology; regression analysis; spatial data; spring; summer; surface temperature; temporal variation; winter; Multi-dimensional urban morphology; Land surface temperature; Hangzhou; Machine learning

•The spatial dependency variations of seasonal thermal environment are investigated.•The relative contribution variations of 2D/3D building metrics are revealed.•The threshold values of dominant building metrics are discovered.•The sensitivity of dominant metrics to analytical scales are examined. U...