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Bahador Ziaeemehr, Zahra Jandaghian, Hua Ge, Michael Lacasse and Travis Moore
The Urban Heat Island (UHI), a consequence of urban development, leads to elevated temperatures within cities compared to their rural counterparts. This phenomenon results from factors such as urban designs, anthropogenic heat emissions, and materials th...
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Helen Brown, Katrina Proust, Barry Newell, Jeffery Spickett, Tony Capon and Lisa Bartholomew
A move towards more compact and climate-resilient cities is being encouraged around the world. As part of these plans, there is a need to manage the potential conflict between increasing urban densities and the extent of tree canopy in cities. Reductions...
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Elis Dener Lima Alves
Pág. 89 - 96
The cooling effects of urban parks and green areas, which form the ?Park Cool Island? (PCI) can help decrease the surface temperature and mitigate the effects of urban heat islands (UHI). Therefore, the objective of this research was to know the temporal...
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M. S. ALONSO,J. L. LABAJO SALAZAR,M. R. FIDALGO
In this paper the urban heat island (UHI) of the city of Salamanca, Spain is examined. The temporal evolution of the intensity of the UHI for the three-year period between 1996 and 1998 was studied by comparing the temperatures ...
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Jou-Man Huang and Liang-Chun Chen
With the global warming effect and the rapid growth of global urbanization, the concept of urban heat islands (UHIs) has become one of the most important environmental issues in the world. Early studies on UHIs mostly focused on highly developed, large c...
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G.M.T.S. Fernando
Global Warming is a major environmental problem that all kind of organisms has been affected at present. Urban Heat Island (UHI) is one of primary impacts of Global Warming. UHI is a phenomenon that the temperature of urban area is higher than surroundin...
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Azad Rasul, Heiko Balzter and Claire Smith
The influence of land surface temperature (LST) makes the near-surface layer of the troposphere a key driver of urban climate. This paper assesses the temporal formation of the daytime Surface Urban Cool Island (SUCI) and night-time Surface Urban Heat Is...
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Natalia Borzino, Samuel Chng, Muhammad Omer Mughal and Renate Schubert
In many countries, urban heat island (UHI) effects come along with urbanization in metropolitan areas. They have relevant adverse effects on the health and wellbeing of citizens. Singapore is strongly affected by UHI. In this study, we assess Singaporean...
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Doris Österreicher and Stefan Sattler
The waste heat generated from the use of air conditioning systems in cities significantly contributes to the urban heat island effect (UHI) during the summer months. Thus, one of the key measures to mitigate this effect is to limit the use of active cool...
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Aakriti Grover and Ram Babu Singh
The formation and occurrence of urban heat island (UHI) is a result of rapid urbanization and associated concretization. Due to intensification of heat combined with high pollution levels, urban areas expose humans to unexpected health risks. In this con...
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Camila Amaro de Souza,Antonio Conceição Paranhos Filho,Eliane Guaraldo
A mudança das superfícies naturais pelas áreas urbanas construídas altera os fatores climáticos como a temperatura do ar e a umidade relativa do ar. Desde os anos 50, as variações térmicas, no que tange os estudos tradicionais de climatologia, são analis...
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O. R. GARCÍA CUETO,E. JÁUREGUI OSTOS,D. TOUDERT,ADALBERTO TEJEDA MARTÍNEZ
In this paper the urban heat islands (UHI), both atmospheric and surface, and their relationship with the land use in the city of Mexicali, Baja California, México, were examined by means of direct in situ measurements of air temperature, ...
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Approximately 10 km2 of new green roofs are built in Germany every year. About 85% of these are Extensive Green Roofs (EGR). An EGR with several research features was installed on new buildings belonging to the University of Applied Sciences N...
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Tommaso Barbieri, Francesca Despini and Sergio Teggi
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon, namely urban areas where the atmospheric temperature is significantly higher than in the surrounding rural areas, is currently a very well-known topic both in the scientific community and in public debates. Growing...
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Yanyan Huang, Ruixin Tu, Wutikeer Tuerxun, Xudong Jia, Xu Zhang and Xiaokang Chen
In the context of an increasingly extreme climate, Urban Heat Island (UHI) mitigation of communities through ventilation has recently attracted more attention. To explore the impact mechanisms of different morphological renovation schemes on its wind and...
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Laila El Ghazouani, Lahouari Bounoua, Joseph Nigro, Majid Mansour, Hassan Radoine and Hanane Souidi
Landsat-8 surface temperature and the European Space Agency land cover are used to assess the impact of land cover on the Urban Heat Island (UHI) and Urban Heat Sink (UHS). We analyzed five Moroccan cities selected for their different local climate, size...
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Gereon Seeberg, Antonia Hostlowsky, Julia Huber, Julia Kamm, Lucia Lincke and Clemens Schwingshackl
The urban heat island (UHI) effect is a serious health risk for people living in cities and thus calls for effective mitigation strategies in urban areas. Satellite data enable monitoring of the surface urban heat island (SUHI) over large areas at high s...
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Erika Betzabeth Palafox-Juárez, Jorge Omar López-Martínez, José Luis Hernández-Stefanoni and Héctor Hernández-Nuñez
Climate change has severe consequences on ecosystem processes, as well as on people?s quality of life. It has been suggested that the loss of vegetation cover increases the land surface temperature (LST) due to modifications in biogeochemical patterns, g...
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Ruiming Ma, Miaomiao Xie, Wenju Yun and Dehai Zhu
Thermal remote sensing provides a method to describe spatial heterogeneity of the ?urban heat island? effect and to evaluate the function of temperature regulation. Rapid urbanization and heatwave events with increasing frequencies need a quantitative an...
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Renata Dos Santos Cardoso, Larissa Piffer Dorigon, Danielle Cardozo Frasca Teixeira and Margarete Cristiane de Costa Trindade Amorim
Urban heat islands (UHIs) in large cities and different climatic regions have been thoroughly studied; however, their effects are becoming a common concern in smaller cities as well. We assessed UHIs in three tropical cities, analyzing how synoptic condi...
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