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Yeri Choi, Sugie Lee and Hyunbin Moon
Urban heat island effects, which are the phenomenon wherein higher ambient air temperatures are measured in cities than in rural areas, have worsened urban thermal environments over the past decades. This study aims to analyze the effects of urban physic...
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Stefania Bonafoni, Giorgio Baldinelli, Paolo Verducci and Andrea Presciutti
In recent years, many new districts in urban centres have been planned and constructed to reshape the structure and functions of specific areas. Urban regeneration strategies, planning and design principles have to take into account both socioeconomic pe...
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Guoqing He, Guanghui Yuan, Yubao Liu, Yin Jiang, Yuewei Liu, Zhuozhi Shu, Xiaodan Ma, Yang Li and Zhaoyang Huo
Sea breezes are one of the most important weather processes affecting the environmental and climatic features over coastal areas, and the sea breeze from the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) has significant effects on the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region. We simu...
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Junliang Qiu, Xiankun Yang, Bowen Cao, Zhilong Chen and Yuxuan Li
Urbanization in China has been expanding dramatically since 1978, significantly affecting the extreme temperature changes in cities, which is a vital indicator of urban climate change. To assess urban-related effect on regional extreme-temperature change...
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Milena Vuckovic, Wolfgang Loibl, Tanja Tötzer and Romana Stollnberger
Global increase of urban population has brought about a growing demand for more dwelling space, resulting in various negative impacts, such as accelerated urbanization, urban sprawl and higher carbon footprints. To cope with these growth dynamics, city a...
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Maria L. Colunga,Víctor Hugo Cambrón-Sandoval,Humberto Suzán-Azpiri,Aurelio Guevara-Escobar,Hugo Luna-Soria
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Alteration of climatic conditions and the urban heat island effect (UHI) are consequences of increased human population and activities in urban zones. Determining the magnitude of the UHI is important to improve urban planning in medium-size cities like ...
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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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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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Ivan Oropeza-Perez
In this document, the thermal effect of a heat island upon an urban area and its surrounding low-rise buildings is analyzed with the building thermal simulation program EnergyPlus and its EnergyPlus weather files (EPW). By using a top-down approach, a si...
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Xin Liu, Zuolin Xiao and Rui Liu
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Linlin Zhang, Qingyan Meng, Zhenhui Sun and Yunxiao Sun
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Jiayun Wang, Fei Meng, Pingjie Fu and Fengxiang Jin
It is of great significance to determine the level of demand for thermal environment regulation and the availability of blue?green spaces for thermal environment regulation to alleviate the effects of urban heat islands. Taking Shandong Province, China, ...
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Yu Zhang and Meiqi Dai
As urbanization continues to accelerate, the urban heat island effects have become one of the most important issues affecting the urban environment and people?s living experience. Numerous studies have shown that urban parks and green spaces can effectiv...
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Wolfgang Loibl, Milena Vuckovic, Ghazal Etminan, Matthias Ratheiser, Simon Tschannett and Doris Österreicher
Climate adaptation, mitigation, and protecting strategies are becoming even more important as climate change is intensifying. The impacts of climate change are especially tangible in dense urban areas due to the inherent characteristics of urban structur...
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Jérémy Bernard, Auline Rodler, Benjamin Morille and Xueyao Zhang
Green areas induce smaller increases in the air temperature than built-up areas. They can offer a solution to mitigating the urban heat island impacts during heat waves, since the cool air generated by a park is diffused into its immediate surroundings t...
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Jérémy Bernard, Auline Rodler, Benjamin Morille and Xueyao Zhang
Green areas induce smaller increases in the air temperature than built-up areas. They can offer a solution to mitigating the urban heat island impacts during heat waves, since the cool air generated by a park is diffused into its immediate surroundings t...
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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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Lilliana L.H. Peng and C. Y. Jim
Green roofs have been recognized as an effective sustainable design tool to mitigate urban heat island (UHI) effects. Previous studies have identified green-roof benefits in cooling and energy-conservation at the building scale, with limited exploration ...
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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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Hanbing Liu, Guobao Luo, Yafeng Gong and Haibin Wei
Due to the negative effects that derive from large impervious surfaces in urban areas, pervious concrete has been developed, and has become an environmentally friendly pavement material. As a porous and permeable material, pervious concrete presents an o...
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