Fig 1.
Technical flow chart of the calculation and analysis of SUHI intensity.
Abbreviation. ISP: impervious surface parcel; LST: land surface temperature; SUHI: surface urban heat island.
Fig 2.
Driving mechanism of socio-economic factors on SUHI effect.
Table 1.
Preliminarily selection of driving factors on the change of SUHI intensity.
Fig 3.
Change trends of urban population in the Northeast region and the Yangtze River Delta.
Fig 4.
Scatter plots of global bivariate Moran’s I indexes in two regions.
Fig 5.
Explanatory power of each driver in two regions.
Notes: (a) Values in brackets are q statistics; (b) The full name of each indicator can be found in Table 1.
Fig 6.
Results of the interaction detector.
Notes: (a) Values in brackets are q statistics; (b) The full name of each indicator can be found in Table 1.