Highest land skin temperatures on earth demonstrate importance of vegetation cover

摘要

The location of the hottest spot on Earth has been an interesting curiosity for centuries. Even with the advent of the instrumental temperature record around the year 1850, the location of the hottest spot on the planet has continued to be the subjectof debate and controversy. More research, originally published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (volume 92, pages 850-860), brings a new dimension to this longstanding debate by using satellite-based remote sensing measurements topinpoint the hottest spots on Earth.