Abstract
This paper discusses vegetation effects and sea breezes on the surface air temperature in the Tokyo metropolitan area using remotely sensed and regional meteorological routine data. Series of NOAA AVHRR images and seasonal meteorological data have revealed the interaction between land surface and atmosphere by sea breezes due to effects of energy advection from cool sea surface and high temperature in urbanized areas of Tokyo, detecting modification of the horizontal distribution of surface temperature in the Metropolitan area. The relation between NDVI obtainedby AVHRR and air temperature observed by AMeDAS extracted mitigation effects of about 5°C by vegetation transpiration on the Metropolitan air temperature.
