Appraising the Spatial Variability of Urban Heat Island Intensity of a tropical South Asian mega city: A field study of the Colombo Metropolitan Region in Sri Lanka

The data set comprises the original data recorded in the study including the land use/ land cover indices (built to unbuilt ratio, NDVI and NDBI), measured air temperatures, land surface temperatures (LST) and the calculated surface and atmospheric urban heat island intensities of the selected monitoring sites.