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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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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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Xueqin Li, Lindsay C. Stringer and Martin Dallimer
Due to the combination of climate change and the rapid growth in urban populations in Africa, many urban areas are encountering exacerbated urban heat island (UHI) effects. It is important to understand UHI effects in order to develop suitable adaptation...
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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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Pritipadmaja, Rahul Dev Garg and Ashok K. Sharma
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is a significant concern in today?s rapidly urbanising cities, with exacerbating heatwaves? impact, urban livelihood, and environmental well-being. This study aims to assess the cooling effect of blue-green spaces in Bh...
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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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Aiman Mazhar Qureshi and Ahmed Rachid
Over the last few decades, Urban Heat Stress (UHS) has become a crucial concern of scientists and policy-makers. Many projects have been implemented to mitigate Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects using nature-based solutions. However, decision-making and se...
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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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Riguga Su, Chaobin Yang, Zhibo Xu, Tingwen Luo, Lilong Yang, Lifeng Liu and Chao Wang
Urban landscape has important effects on urban climate, and the local climate zone (LCZ) framework has been widely applied in related studies. However, few studies have compared the relative contributions of LCZ on the urban thermal environment across di...
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Bilal Aslam, Ahsen Maqsoom, Nauman Khalid, Fahim Ullah and Samad Sepasgozar
Global climate has been radically affected by the urbanization process in recent years. Karachi, Pakistan?s economic hub, is also showing signs of swift urbanization. Owing to the construction of infrastructure projects under the China-Pakistan Economic ...
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Xu Ge, Dasaraden Mauree, Roberto Castello and Jean-Louis Scartezzini
Currently, more than half of the world?s population lives in cities, which leads to major changes in land use and land surface temperature (LST). The associated urban heat island (UHI) effects have multiple impacts on energy consumption and human health....
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Mikhail Varentsov, Hendrik Wouters, Vladimir Platonov and Pavel Konstantinov
Urbanization leads to distinct meteorological features of urban environments, and one the best-known is the urban heat island (UHI) effect. For megacities, these features become mesoscale phenomena (scale = 10 km) that are amplified by the tropospheric f...
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Artur Gonçalves, Gabriella Ornellas, António Castro Ribeiro, Filipe Maia, Alfredo Rocha and Manuel Feliciano
The thermal environment is an important aspect of the urban environment because it affects the quality of life of urban residents and the energy use in buildings. Urban Heat Island (UHI) and Urban Cold Island (UCI) are complementary effects that are the ...
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Andre Santos Nouri, João Pedro Costa, Mattheos Santamouris and Andreas Matzarakis
Based on the Köppen Geiger (KG) classification system, this review article examines existing studies and projects that have endeavoured to address local outdoor thermal comfort thresholds through Public Space Design (PSD). The review is divided into two ...
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Serena Falasca and Gabriele Curci
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) is a well-known phenomenon concerning an increasing percentage of the world?s population due to the growth rates of metropolitan areas. Given the health and economic implications of UHIs, several mitigation techniques are bein...
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Serena Falasca and Gabriele Curci
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) is a well-known phenomenon concerning an increasing percentage of the world?s population due to the growth rates of metropolitan areas. Given the health and economic implications of UHIs, several mitigation techniques are bein...
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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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Menglin S. Jin, Yu Li and Debin Su
Using 1 km satellite remote sensing observations, this paper examines the clouds, aerosols, water vapor and surface skin temperature over Beijing to understand the possible urban system contributions to the extreme rainfall event on 21 July 2012 (i.e., 7...
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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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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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