Research Article
Associated Determinants of Surface Urban Heat Islands across 1449 Cities in China
Table 2
Explanation rates of daytime and nighttime SUHII in China and in the four regions annually for four seasons (%).
| Time slot | China | Region I | Region II | Region III | Region IV |
| Ann | D | 31.55 | 45.89 | 26.22 | 43.53 | 22.64 | N | 49.68 | 59.72 | 59.75 | 41.61 | 40.75 | Win | D | 25.87 | 15.23 | 17.34 | 43.53 | 27.69 | N | 37.45 | 52.98 | 46.03 | 32.42 | 20.72 | Spr | D | 31.96 | 39.04 | 45.28 | 20.54 | 35.50 | N | 47.98 | 62.81 | 54.19 | 33.37 | 30.18 | Sum | D | 28.52 | 63.84 | 36.28 | 62.40 | 10.44 | N | 35.77 | 46.27 | 49.49 | 62.92 | 19.84 | Aut | D | 44.12 | 31.41 | 33.29 | 47.19 | 28.20 | N | 43.34 | 51.31 | 53.53 | 38.07 | 39.08 |
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Note: D and N stand for day and night, respectively.
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