Showing papers by "Timothy R. Oke published in 1973"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the relationship existing between the size of a village, town or city and the magnitude of the urban heat island it produces by analyzing data gathered by automobile traverses in 10 settlements on the St. Lawrence Lowland, whose populations range from 1000 to 2 million inhabitants.

TL;DR: In this article, the wind profile parameters z0 and d computed from measurements over a field of winter wheat are compared with those derived from a number of formulae based on simple measures of plant structure.