Rosenfeld A Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Global Warming, Climate Change, Earth Surface
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Arthur Hinton Rosenfeld was a UC Berkeley physicist and California energy commissioner, dubbed the Godfather of Energy Efficiency, for developing new standards which helped improve energy efficiency in California and subsequently worldwide. Dr. Rosenfeld served as Senior Advisor to the U. S. Department of Energy's Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
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Author(s): Wickham C, Rohde R, Muller RA, Wurtele J, Curry J, Groom D, Jacobsen R, Perlmutter S, Rosenfeld A and Mosher S
Influence of Urban Heating on the Global Temperature Land Average using Rural Sites Identified from MODIS Classifications
The effect of urban heating on estimates of global average land surface temperature is studied by applying an urban-rural classification based on MODIS satellite data to the Berkeley Earth temperature dataset compilation of 36,869 sites from 15 different publicly available sources. We compare the distribution of linear temperature trends for these sites to the distribution for a rural subset of 15,594 sites chosen to be distant from all MODISidentified urban areas. While the trend distributions are broad, with one-third of the stations in the US and wo... view moreĀ»