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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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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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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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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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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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Min Ho Shin, Hwan Yong Kim, Donghwan Gu and Hyoungsub Kim
The use of energy in the building sector has increased rapidly over the past two decades. Accordingly, various building assessment methods have developed in green building practices. However, the questions still remain in regard to how positively green b...
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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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V. R. Sankar Cheela, Michele John, Wahidul Biswas and Prabir Sarker
Pavements occupy about 40% of urban land cover, with 75?80% black top roads, playing a critical role in urban connectivity and mobility. Solar energy is absorbed and stored in pavements leading to an increase in surface temperatures. Decreasing green cov...
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Anja Svane Kolath and Sara Egemose
Urban areas with dark and impermeable surfaces are known to have a heating effect on air and still water compared to surrounding areas, called the urban heat island effect (UHI). UHI and stormwater discharges? collective impact on stream temperature, esp...
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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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Honglian Li, Li Shang, Chengwang Li and Jiaxiang Lei
Climate change and urban heat island effects affect the energy consumption of buildings in urban heat islands. In order to meet the requirements of engineering applications for detailed daily design parameters for air conditioning, the 15-year summer met...
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Changying Xiang and Lulu Tao
Vertical greenery not only helps to cool the surfaces of buildings but, more importantly, it can also mitigate the Urban Heat Island effect. The growth of vertical greenery is highly dependent on ongoing maintenance, such as irrigation. Wind-driven rain ...
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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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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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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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Suren Nayak, Arya Vinod and Anup Krishna Prasad
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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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Qijiao Xie, Qi Sun and Zhonglu Ouyang
Monitoring the relationship between the urban heat island (UHI) effect and land use/land cover (LULC) is of great significance in land use planning to adapt to climate change. However, the dynamic response of the UHI effect to LULC change over space and ...
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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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