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In this research, we focused on the spatiotemporal patterns for two \u201cstove cities\u201d in China, i.e., Wuhan and Nanchang, based on the long-term (1984\u20132018) and fine-scale (Landsat-like) series of satellite images. The results showed opposite spatiotemporal patterns for the two cities, even though they were both widely concerned to be the hottest cities. No matter which definition of surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII) was selected, Nanchang presented higher and more fluctuating SUHII than Wuhan, with a relatively higher land surface temperature (LST) of the urban area and lower LST of the rural area in Nanchang, especially in recent years. For the spatial pattern, the highest LST center (i.e., the SUHI) has expanded obviously for the past 35 years in Nanchang. For Wuhan, the LST in SUHI has gone through a trend of a relatively increase at first, followed by a decrease. For the temporal pattern, an increasing trend of LST could be detected in Nanchang. However, the LST in Wuhan presented a slightly decreasing trend. Moreover, the SUHII evolution in Nanchang decreased at first then increased, while Wuhan showed a slight increasing trend at first, followed by a decrease for SUHII. In addition, different SUHII definitions would not affect the spatial pattern and temporal trend of SUHI, but only controlled the exact SUHII value, especially in those years with extreme weather.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13214447","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,7]],"date-time":"2021-11-07T20:42:54Z","timestamp":1636317774000},"page":"4447","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Opposite Spatiotemporal Patterns for Surface Urban Heat Island of Two \u201cStove Cities\u201d in China: Wuhan and Nanchang"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Yao","family":"Shen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Ecology and Environment, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chao","family":"Zeng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0571-4083","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qing","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Huanfeng","family":"Shen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"The Collaborative Innovation Center for Geospatial Technology, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"304","DOI":"10.1038\/s41893-018-0076-2","article-title":"Progress towards sustainable intensification in China challenged by land-use change","volume":"1","author":"Zuo","year":"2018","journal-title":"Nat. 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