Lisbon Urban Heat Island Updated: New Highlights about the Relationships between Thermal Patterns and Wind Regimes

Table 1

Characterization of the measurement sites of the Lisbon mesoscale network (RES: Restauradores, BAI: Bairro Alto, SAL: Saldanha, CAR: Carnide, MON: Monsanto, BEL: Belém, and PAR: Parque das Nações).

	Measurements sites
	RES	BAI	SAL	CAR	MON	BEL	PAR
Mean altitude* (m)	32.4	55.8	85.1	106.7	160.8	5.8	4.2
Minimum distance to the Tagus River (m)	1225	1168	3765	7810	2635	181	75
Buildings* (%)	65.7	73.6	70.8	24.7	0.6	19.8	21.6
Mean building height* (m)	11.6	11.4	16.2	15	7.5	9.9	16.5
NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index)	0.1	0.1	−0.1	−0.14	0.12	0	0.29

∗Measured within a square of 500 m, centred over the observation site (based on Alves and Biudes [13]).
Source: adapted from Alcoforado et al. [14]