Urban areas cause several transformations in the landscape through the replacement of vegetation and permeable soils for buildings and waterproofing of surfaces. Such changes result in a different energy balance according ...

Land surface transformations associated to the urbanization has impacted local climates and terrestrial surface energy processes. The occurrence of higher temperatures in urbanized areas when compared to rural and natural ...

Arica is a coastal city located in northern Chile, in the Atacama Desert. The behavior of surface temperatures in the city between 1985 and 2019 was studied using Landsat satellite images, leading to the identification of ...