Using the Urban Heat Island (UHI) concept to evaluate the urban land cover change reflected by surface air temperature

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Issue		E3S Web Conf. Volume 682, 2025 11^th-ICCC 2025 – 11^th International Conference on Climate Change


Article Number		02006
Number of page(s)		17
Section		Urban Sustainability and Green Infrastructure
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202568202006
Published online		23 December 2025

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