Urban Heat Islands of Small Settlements

R scripts and data associated with the manuscript "Urban Heat Islands of Small Settlements".

The .zip-folder contains two subfolders, data and r. All files stored in data are accessed via scripts found in r, thus the explanation of the structure follows only for the R scripts. 

00_Municipalities: here the GIS data underlying Figure 1 is processed and general descriptions of the natural landscape of the municipalities are based on analyses in this script.. Since Figure 1 was visualized in QGIS, no script for Figure 1 itself exists.
01_Station_Analysis: here a general analysis of the possible available rural background stations based on historical data was performed. Supplemental Figures 1 and 2 are produced in this script.
02_Calibration: this script entails the analysis around the sensor calibration, producing Figures 3 and 4 of the manuscript. 
03_Rural_Background: here, the rural background temperatures for the investigation period are calculated. Other scripts (04_ and 05_) access this script to calculate UHI intensities. Figures 5 of the manuscript and supplemental Figure 3 are produced here.
04_Sensor_Analysis: here, the data of the fixed sensors established in the investigated towns is compiled and analyzed. Figures 6, 7 and 8 of the manuscript and supplemental figures 4, 5 and 6 are produced here.
05_Mobile_Transects: this entails all data and analyses around the mobile transects conducted, both the test run and the "actual" run in Forchheim. Here the GIS data underlying Figure 2 is processed and Figures 9, 11 and 12 are produced as well as supplemental figure 7. 

Figures 1, 2 and 10 of the manuscript were produced in QGIS.