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The urban heat island (UHI) becomes a very serious problem in China. In this paper, the UHI pattern of Beijing in the four seasons was studied using ASTER thermal infrared data. The Land Surface Temperature(LST) maps of Beijing, China in the four seasons of 2004 were retrieved using local split window algorithm adjusted according to ASTER data and the atmosphere profiles of Beijing. And a numerical...