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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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Chrissa Georgakis and Mattheos Santamouris
The present study aims to present all the findings of micro-climate measurements that were performed by the University of Athens in the center of Athens, during the summer period. The extended experimental campaign aimed to collect thermal and air flow m...
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Chrissa Georgakis and Mattheos Santamouris
The present study aims to present all the findings of micro-climate measurements that were performed by the University of Athens in the center of Athens, during the summer period. The extended experimental campaign aimed to collect thermal and air flow m...
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Ying-ying Li, Yu Liu, Manjula Ranagalage, Hao Zhang and Rui Zhou
In this study, a retrospective analysis of the relationship between the land use/land cover (LULC) change and associated surface urban heat island (SUHI) effect in fast-growing Greater Hefei between 1995 and 2016 was performed. Our results reveal the het...
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Neshat Rahmani and Ayyoob Sharifi
The Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification system is used in this study to analyze the impacts of urban morphology on a surface urban heat island (SUHI). Our study involved a comparative analysis of SUHI effects in two Japanese cities, Sapporo and Hiros...
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Suren Nayak, Arya Vinod and Anup Krishna Prasad
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K. I. Morris, A. Chan, S. Aekbal Salleh, M. C. G. Ooi, Y. A. Abakr, M. Y. Oozeer, M. Duda
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Andrew MacLachlan, Eloise Biggs, Gareth Roberts and Bryan Boruff
Urban land cover is one of the fastest global growing land cover types which permanently alters land surface properties and atmospheric interactions, often initiating an urban heat island effect. Urbanisation comprises a number of land cover changes with...
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Andrew MacLachlan, Eloise Biggs, Gareth Roberts and Bryan Boruff
Urban land cover is one of the fastest global growing land cover types which permanently alters land surface properties and atmospheric interactions, often initiating an urban heat island effect. Urbanisation comprises a number of land cover changes with...
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Victor Ruiz-Aviles, Anthony Brazel, Jonathan M. Davis and David Pijawka
Extreme heat threatens desert city residents throughout the hot summer months and inhibits outdoor recreation and activity. Ecosystem services provide various benefits for urban environments. For desert cities, few are more critical than microclimate reg...
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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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Anna Solcerova, Tim Van Emmerik, Koen Hilgersom, Frans Van de Ven and Nick Van de Giesen
The urban heat island effect was first described 200 years ago, but the development of ways to mitigate heat in urban areas reaches much further into the past. Uchimizu is a 17th century Japanese tradition, in which water is sprinkled around houses to co...
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Annamária Lehoczky, José A. Sobrino, Dra?en Skokovic and Enric Aguilar
Extreme heat poses significant risks to the world?s growing urban population, and the heat stress to human health is likely to escalate with the anthropogenically increased temperatures projected by climate models. Thus, the additional heat from the urba...
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Annamária Lehoczky, José A. Sobrino, Dra?en Skokovic and Enric Aguilar
Extreme heat poses significant risks to the world?s growing urban population, and the heat stress to human health is likely to escalate with the anthropogenically increased temperatures projected by climate models. Thus, the additional heat from the urba...
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Man Sing Wong, Fen Peng, Bin Zou, Wen Zhong Shi and Gaines J. Wilson
Recent studies have suggested that some disadvantaged socio-demographic groups face serious environmental-related inequities in Hong Kong due to the rising ambient urban temperatures. Identifying heat-vulnerable groups and locating areas of Surface Urban...
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Sadroddin Alavipanah, Martin Wegmann, Salman Qureshi, Qihao Weng and Thomas Koellner
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) is the phenomenon of altered increased temperatures in urban areas compared to their rural surroundings. UHIs grow and intensify under extreme hot periods, such as during heat waves, which can affect human health and also incr...
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Ziqi Ren, Zhe Li, Feng Wu, Huiqiang Ma, Zhanjun Xu, Wei Jiang, Shaohua Wang and Jun Yang
Rapid urbanization has led to significant changes in land surface temperature (LST), which in turn affect the urban thermal environment effect and the health of residents. Exploring the causes of the urban thermal environment effect will provide guidance...
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DMSLB Dissanayake, Takehiro Morimoto, Manjula Ranagalage and Yuji Murayama
An urban heat island (UHI) is a phenomenon that shows a higher temperature in urban areas compared to surrounding rural areas due to the impact of impervious surface (IS) density, and other anthropogenic activities including changes of land use/land cove...
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Hengyue Zhang, Menglin S. Jin and Martin Leach
The urban heat island effect (UHI) for inner land regions was investigated using satellite data, ground observations, and simulations with an Single-Layer Urban Canopy Parameterization (SLUCP) coupled into the regional Weather Research Forecasting model ...
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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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