Figure 1. Land cover distribution in 2011 for Lexington, Kentucky according to the USGS National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD)

Figure 2. Distribution of urban surface heat appears to coincide with the distribution of urban impervious surface land cover types (Credit: Kolan Livingston 2015).

Results and Discussion

The team of researchers discussed why urban heat Islands are different in different cities. They are different because all the different cities have different compositions of building