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Urban climate and physical geography: A response to Ashmore and Dodson
Author(s) -
Brazel Anthony J.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/cag.12351
Subject(s) - geography , economic geography , urban climate , urban geography , field (mathematics) , regional science , urban planning , ecology , mathematics , pure mathematics , biology
Key Messages Physical geographers are focusing on urban areas through the expanding field of urban climatology. Physical geographers in Canada have a long legacy of urban climate studies, one which is evident world‐wide. Urban climatologists and affiliated organizations study urban place and contexts by definition and have also turned towards creating tools to span scales from global to local.