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. 2015 Mar 31;6:6603. doi: 10.1038/ncomms7603

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Effect of forest on temperature is represented by ΔLST (forest minus open land), where positive (negative) values indicate a warming (cooling) effect of forests. (a–c) Spatial pattern (averaged on 1 × 1° grids) and (d–f) corresponding latitudinal dependence of ΔLST for daytime, nighttime, and daily averages (blue line denotes 95% confidence interval (CI) estimated by t-test). Latitude bars with CI out of display range are not drawn. Latitude statistics are in Supplementary Table 1.