Detecting urban heat island changes using remote sensing techniques and air temperatures time series analysis in arid climates: an application to Riyadh City - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Detecting urban heat island changes using remote sensing techniques and air temperatures time series analysis in arid climates: an application to Riyadh City - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Identifier

TSU2014Alghamdi

Type

["Text"]

Genre

["Theses"]

Format

["pdf"]

Rights

Access to this document has been permanently and indefinitely restricted by the author until or unless the author submits a written request to Special Collections & Archives to change the access restrictions and/or make it freely available. Only Albert S. Cook Library staff members may access this file for administrative purposes unless written permission from the author is presented to staff members of the Towson University Special Collections & Archives department.

General Notes

Thesis research directed by the Department of Geography and Environmental Planning

Language

["English"]

Repository

["Towson University. Albert S. Cook Library. Special Collections and University Archives"]

Collection Name

["Towson University Graduate Theses and Dissertations"]

Author

Alghamdi, Ali Saeed

Degree Date

August 2014

Department or Program

["Towson University. Department of Geography & Environmental Planning"]

Abstract

Urban heat islands (UHIs) exist when temperature in the atmospheric boundary layer is warmer above the urban area than it is above rural areas. Surface UHIs (SUHIs) exist when the temperature of the surface is warmer in urban areas than in rural areas. However, several cities in arid climates have showed a weak or negative UHI and SUHI. In addition, UHIs and SUHIs have not been thoroughly studied in many arid environments around the globe, especially cities of the Arabian Gulf. Using long-term air temperature data from 1985-2010 and Landsat remote sensing data from 1985 and 2001, changes in the UHI and SUHI in Riyadh City were analyzed to better understand their behavior in Riyadh City. Both UHI and SUHI sinks were found and significant decreasing trends were found in the mean annual nocturnal UHI, nocturnal UHI in winter and autumn, and in diurnal UHI during winter. SUHI sinks were evident and extended.

Thesis Committee Members

["Morgan, John M., III","Roberge, Martin"]

Date Published

22 October 2021

Author (Controlled)

["Alghamdi, Ali Saeed"]

Thesis Advisor

["Moore, Todd W."]

Degree Note

(M.A.) -- Towson University, 2014

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