Do Airports Have Their Own Climate?. Gough, W. A. & Leung, A. C. W. Meteorology, 1(2):171–182, June, 2022. Number: 2 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Sixty-four airport climate records were examined across Canada. Day-to-day (DTD) temperature variability metrics were used to assess the nature of the local environment. In total, 86% of the airports were assessed as peri-urban, reflective of either their location at the fringe of the urban centers or the creation of a peri-urban microclimate by the airport itself. The remaining nine stations were identified using a previously identified metric as marine, or “mountain”, a new category developed in this study. The analysis included a proposal for a decision flow chart to identify the nature of the local climate based on DTD thermal variability. An analysis of the peri-urban thermal metric and population indicated that a peri-urban climate was consistently identified for airports independent of the magnitude of the local population (or urbanization), lending support to the idea of a localized “airport” climate that matched peri-urban characteristics.
@article{gough_airports_2022,
	title = {Do {Airports} {Have} {Their} {Own} {Climate}?},
	volume = {1},
	copyright = {http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/},
	issn = {2674-0494},
	url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2674-0494/1/2/12},
	doi = {10.3390/meteorology1020012},
	abstract = {Sixty-four airport climate records were examined across Canada. Day-to-day (DTD) temperature variability metrics were used to assess the nature of the local environment. In total, 86\% of the airports were assessed as peri-urban, reflective of either their location at the fringe of the urban centers or the creation of a peri-urban microclimate by the airport itself. The remaining nine stations were identified using a previously identified metric as marine, or “mountain”, a new category developed in this study. The analysis included a proposal for a decision flow chart to identify the nature of the local climate based on DTD thermal variability. An analysis of the peri-urban thermal metric and population indicated that a peri-urban climate was consistently identified for airports independent of the magnitude of the local population (or urbanization), lending support to the idea of a localized “airport” climate that matched peri-urban characteristics.},
	language = {en},
	number = {2},
	urldate = {2022-05-05},
	journal = {Meteorology},
	author = {Gough, William A. and Leung, Andrew C. W.},
	month = jun,
	year = {2022},
	note = {Number: 2
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute},
	keywords = {aviation, climate classification, day-to-day temperature variability, marine, mountain, peri-urban, rural, urban},
	pages = {171--182},
}

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