The influence of city size versus urban form on land surface temperature variation and the surface urban heat island effect: A cross-city analysis of German cities

• Regan Doyle ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ This author is the senior author.

  Affiliations CEC-Ingenieure, Gewerbegebiet An der Dornacher Straße, Feldkirchen, Germany, Department Georisks & Civil Security, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Münchener Strasse 20, Weßling, Germany

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• Tobias Leichtle ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Tobias.Leichtle@dlr.de

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department Georisks & Civil Security, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Münchener Strasse 20, Weßling, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0852-4437

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• Stephan Pauleit ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stephan Pauleit, Hannes Taubenböck

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Emil-Ramann-Strasse 6, Freising, Germany

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• Hannes Taubenböck

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stephan Pauleit, Hannes Taubenböck

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department Georisks & Civil Security, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Münchener Strasse 20, Weßling, Germany, Department of Global Urbanization and Remote Sensing, Earth Observation Research Cluster, Institute for Geography and Geology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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