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Understanding Diurnality and Inter-Seasonality of a Sub-tropical Urban Heat Island

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We quantify the spatial and temporal aspects of the urban heat-island (UHI) effect for Kanpur, a major city in the humid sub-tropical monsoon climate of the Gangetic basin. Fixed station measurements are used to investigate the diurnality and inter-seasonality in the urban–rural differences in surface temperature (\({\Delta } T_\mathrm{s}\)) and air temperature (\({\Delta } T_\mathrm{c}\)) separately. The extent of the spatial variations of the nighttime \({\Delta } T_\mathrm{c}\) and \({\Delta } T_\mathrm{s}\) is investigated through mobile campaigns and satellite remote sensing respectively. Nighttime \({\Delta } T_\mathrm{c}\) values dominate during both the pre-monsoon (maximum of 3.6 \(^\circ \hbox {C}\)) and the monsoon (maximum of 2.0 \(^\circ \hbox {C}\)). However, the diurnality in \({\Delta } T_\mathrm{s}\) is different, with higher daytime values during the pre-monsoon, but very little diurnality during the monsoon. The nighttime \({\Delta } T_\mathrm{s}\) value is mainly associated with differences in the urban–rural incoming longwave radiative flux (\(r^{2}=0.33\) during the pre-monsoon; 0.65 during the monsoon), which, in turn, causes a difference in the outgoing longwave radiative flux. This difference may modulate the nighttime \({\Delta } T_\mathrm{c}\) value as suggested by significant correlations (\(r^{2}=0.68\) for the pre-monsoon; 0.50 for the monsoon). The magnitude of \({\Delta } T_\mathrm{c}\) may also be modulated by advection, as it is inversely related with the urban wind speed. A combination of in situ, remotely sensed, and model simulation data were used to show that the inter-seasonality in \({\Delta } T_\mathrm{s}\), and, to a lesser extent, in \({\Delta } T_\mathrm{c}\), may be related to the change in the land use of the rural site between the pre-monsoon and the monsoon periods. Results suggest that the degree of coupling of \({\Delta } T_\mathrm{s}\) and \({\Delta } T_\mathrm{c}\) may be a strong function of land use and land cover.

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The present study was supported in part by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the financial support given by The Earth System Science Organization, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India to conduct this research. The authors thank Pravin Verma and Harishankar for proper maintenance of the weather stations and for helping to organize the measurement campaigns. The authors also thank Prof. Vimal Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, for his comments on the paper.

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    Tirthankar Chakraborty

  2. Civil Engineering Department, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India

    Chandan Sarangi

  3. Civil Engineering Department and Centre for Environmental Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India

    Sachchida Nand Tripathi

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Chakraborty, T., Sarangi, C. & Tripathi, S.N. Understanding Diurnality and Inter-Seasonality of a Sub-tropical Urban Heat Island. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 163, 287–309 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-016-0223-0

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