American Chemical Society, Environmental Science and Technology, 12(46), p. 6889-6890, 2012
DOI: 10.1021/es301811b
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In her comment on our paper "Surface urban heat island across 419 global big cities"1, N. Schwarz raised several questions on our analyses relating surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII) to city division, city size and population intensity. We welcome this opportunity to clarify and reiterate a few important points made in our paper1 concerning SUHII and urban social-economical status at global scale.