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Increased temperature in urban ground as source of sustainable energy [PDF]

, 2016
This paper is part of the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability (Sustainable City 2015). http://www.witconferences.comDensely urbanized areas are characterized by special microclimatic conditions with ...
Bayer, P., Benz, S., Blum, P., Rivera, J.   +3 more
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Numerical investigation of urban heat island effect in various urban forms

Energy and Built Environment
s: The urban heat island effect is a widespread phenomenon in major cities worldwide, exerting significant impacts on urban environments, human health, and energy consumption, thus attracting extensive research interest.
Tingzhen Ming, Yachen Liu, Tianhao Shi, Chong Peng, Yanhua Chen, Renaud de Richter, Yueping Fang   +6 more
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Analysis of Urban Heat Island Effect, Heat Stress and Public Health in Colombo, Sri Lanka and Shenzhen, China

Atmosphere, 2023
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.
Srimalee Nanayakkara, Weimin Wang, Jie Cao, Jia Wang, Weiqi Zhou   +4 more
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Simulating the influence of microclimatic design on mitigating the urban heat island effect in the Hangzhou metropolitan area of China [PDF]

, 2016
There are many indications that Urban Heat Island (UHI) is a significant contributor to the increased emission of greenhouse gases due to the increase in energy consumption for cooling during summer. Hangzhou is currently the second hottest city in China,
Bruse, D. H. C. Chow, J. Darkwa, T. Shen, Wu   +4 more
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Monitoring the impact of land cover change on surface urban heat island through google earth engine. Proposal of a global methodology, first applications and problems [PDF]

, 2018
All over the world, the rapid urbanization process is challenging the sustainable development of our cities. In 2015, the United Nation highlighted in Goal 11 of the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) the importance to "Make cities inclusive, safe ...
Crespi, Mattia Giovanni, Di Rico, Clarissa, Leuzzi, Giovanni, Monti, Paolo, Nascetti, Andrea, Ravanelli, Roberta, Valeria Cirigliano, Raffaella   +6 more
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Application of Optimized Sensible Heat Flux Calculation Combining Low-Pass Filtering and Wavelet Transform in the Study of Urban Thermal Environment in Jiangsu Province [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
The urban heat island effect is a common phenomenon during urbanization, characterized by significantly higher temperatures in urban areas compared to surrounding rural areas.
Du Diwei
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Evaluation of urban heat island effect in Turkey

Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2018
Recently, the rate of urbanisation has accelerated due to increasing population density which causes unexpected environmental disturbances and problems. One of the major problems encountered to date is the change in the land use/cover (LULC) structure.
Dihkan, Mustafa, Karsli, Fevzi, Guneroglu, Nilgun, Guneroglu, Abdulaziz   +3 more
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The polycentricity of urban population will lead to improvements in urban heat island effect: Evidence from the Yangtze river delta in China

Sustainable Futures
Currently, major cities globally are universally and actively implementing strategies for the polycentric development of urban spatial structures. However, the impacts of this strategy on the ecological environment and residents' lives require further ...
Cheng Wang, Jingyuan Chen, Qinpei Wang, Dan Li, Meng Zhu, Zhiqiang Gan, Menglin Qin, Yunbin Zhang   +7 more
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Persistent cloud cover over mega-cities linked to surface heat release [PDF]

, 2019
Urban areas are a hotspot for the interactions between the built environment, its inhabitants, and weather. Unlike the impact of temperatures through the well-known urban heat island effect, urban effects on cloud formation remain unknown.
Barlow, Janet F., Grimmond, C. Sue B., Kotthaus, Simone, Teuling, Adriaan J., Theeuwes, Natalie E.   +4 more
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Micrometre-scale refrigerators [PDF]

, 2000
A superconductor with a gap in the density of states or a quantum dot with discrete energy levels is a central building block in realizing an electronic on-chip cooler.
H Putnam, R Sperry, R. Omnes, S Saunders, S. 1. Saunders   +4 more
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