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Shiyun Cheng, Shuai Li and Feng Qi
The urban heat island effect is a typical feature of urban climates. Problems associated with urban heat islands include an increase in energy consumption and health issues resulting from a reduction in thermal comfort. The method of constructing a heat ...
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Pauline Schmidt and Bryce T. Lawrence
Average temperatures continue to rise throughout the world due to climate change and, thus, also in Europe, often occurring as heat waves. The negative effects of climate change-related heat waves can be observed, especially in urban areas where land sea...
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Jiyuan Zhang, Lili Tu and Biao Shi
Using the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Web of Science (WoS) databases, 487 articles that used remote sensing methods to study the intensity of surface urban heat islands (SUHIs) over the past 20 years were obtained using keyword sea...
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Gabriella Zsebeházi and Sándor István Mahó
Land surface models with detailed urban parameterization schemes provide adequate tools to estimate the impact of climate change in cities, because they rely on the results of the regional climate model, while operating on km scale at low cost. In this p...
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Ziyi Chen, Xiaoqian Lin, Mingzhe Li, Ye Chen, Yabing Huang, Yujie Zhu, Jiaxin Chen, Taoyu Li, Weicong Fu and Jianwen Dong
With the acceleration of urbanization, urban heat waves have become a major problem affecting the lives of citizens. In this context, the accurate identification of the key patches and nodes of urban heat islands is important for improving the urban envi...
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Robert Dare
This article presents a customized system dynamics model to facilitate the informed development of policy for urban heat island mitigation within the context of future climate change, and with special emphasis on the reduction of heat-related mortality. ...
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Martín Bonifacio-Bautista, Monica Ballinas and Victor L. Barradas
Urban areas present different climates from those of their rural surroundings. Energy balance and especially energy storage play important roles in the resulting climate since more than 50% of the net radiation is absorbed in densely urbanized areas. A s...
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Srimalee Nanayakkara, Weimin Wang, Jie Cao, Jia Wang and Weiqi Zhou
Human health, energy and comfort are determined by the climate that remains in the physical environment. Regarding urban climate, few studies assess the urban heat island effect, heat stress, and public health as geographical representations. This study ...
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Shanshan Liu, Ronnen Levinson and Daisuke Narumi
Densely built areas with poor thermal insulation suffer from high thermal environmental risks and generally consume high energy in summer. Determining the relationship between density and energy consumption is necessary, particularly when implementing ur...
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Ao Wang, Xian-Xiang Li, Rui Xin and Lup Wai Chew
Anthropogenic heat (AH) emissions have great impacts on urban climate. AH is usually spatially heterogeneous and depends on the urban land use type. Studies using high-resolution gridded data that can resolve spatially heterogeneous AH are still scarce. ...
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Flannery Black-Ingersoll, Julie de Lange, Leila Heidari, Abgel Negassa, Pilar Botana, M. Patricia Fabian and Madeleine K. Scammell
Heat islands and warming temperatures are a growing global public health concern. Although cities are implementing cooling interventions, little is known about their efficacy. We conducted a literature review of field studies measuring the impact of urba...
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Xuecheng Fu, Lei Yao and Shuo Sun
The urbanization process leads to the enhancement of the urban heat island (UHI) effect, and the high temperature brought by it exacerbates the risk of heat exposure and seriously endangers human health. Analyzing the spatiotemporal characteristics and l...
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Ruth M. Grajeda-Rosado, Elia M. Alonso-Guzmán, Carlos Escobar-Del Pozo, Carlos J. Esparza-López, Cristina Sotelo-Salas, Wilfrido Martínez-Molina, Max Mondragon-Olan and Alfonso Cabrera-Macedo
Anthropogenic heat (QF) is one of the parameters that contributes to the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon. Usually, this variable is studied holistically, among other anthropogenic flux such as industrial, vehicular, buildings, and human metabolism, du...
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Ronald Gil Joy P. Bilang, Ariel C. Blanco, Justine Ace S. Santos and Lyndon Mark P. Olaguera
This present study aims to determine the performance of using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model, coupled with the urban canopy models (UCMs), in simulating the 2 m air temperature and 2 m relative humidity in Metro Manila. The simulation w...
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Tomá? Fedor and Jaroslav Hofierka
The rapid growth of urbanization significantly influences local atmospheric conditions and life quality of residents living in urban areas by creating a localized phenomenon known as an urban heat island. Urban heat island characteristics are strongly fo...
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Elena Grigorieva and Artem Lukyanets
Association between short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and respiratory health is well documented. At the same time, it is widely known that extreme weather events intrinsically exacerbate air pollution impact. Particularly, hot weather and extr...
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Stavros Ch. Keppas, Sofia Papadogiannaki, Daphne Parliari, Serafim Kontos, Anastasia Poupkou, Paraskevi Tzoumaka, Apostolos Kelessis, Prodromos Zanis, Giampietro Casasanta, Francesca de?Donato, Stefania Argentini and Dimitrios Melas
The Mediterranean is recognized among the most responsive regions to climate change, with annual temperatures projected to increase by 1?5 °C until 2100. Large cities may experience an additional stress discomfort due to the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effec...
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Michal Lehnert, Stevan Savic, Dragan Milo?evic, Jelena Dunjic and Jan Geletic
In the light of climate change and burgeoning urbanization, heat loads in urban areas have emerged as serious issues, affecting the well-being of the population and the environment. In response to a pressing need for more standardised and communicable re...
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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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Bernardo Teufel, Laxmi Sushama, Vincent Poitras, Tarek Dukhan, Stéphane Bélair, Luis Miranda-Moreno, Lijun Sun, Agus P. Sasmito and Girma Bitsuamlak
Governments around the world have implemented measures to slow down the spread of COVID-19, resulting in a substantial decrease in the usage of motorized transportation. The ensuing decrease in the emission of traffic-related heat and pollutants is expec...
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