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Urban heat dynamics in Local Climate Zones (LCZs): A systematic review

Building and Environment
Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) present significant challenges for urban areas worldwide, impacting public health and the overall livability of cities. This systematic literature review explores UHI effects across different Local Climate Zones (LCZs) and suggests mitigation strategies.
Neshat Rahmani, Ayyoob Sharifi
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GIS-based mapping of Local Climate Zone in the high-density city of Hong Kong

, 2018
© 2017 Elsevier B.V. This study aims to develop a Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification map and establish the associated urban morphology database as a cross-discipline information platform for climate research and planning decision making in Hong Kong.
Xu, Yong, Ren, Chao, Chao Ren, Wang, Ran, Yingsheng Zheng, Kevin Lau, Lau, Kevin, Ho, Justin, Ng, Edward, Zheng, Yingsheng, Ran Wang, Edward Ng, Justin Ho, Yong Xu   +13 more
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The 100 m annual local climate zone datasets in Chinese big cities from 2000 to 2022

, 2023
<p>We employed a time-series mapping framework for urban morphology, producing dynamic mappings of urban morphology with a spatial resolution of 100 meters spanning from 2000 to 2022 in major Chinese cities, based on the local climate zone (LCZ ...
Zhang, Chunxiao, Zhao, Jiyao, Yu, Hanguang, Yang, Yang, Yu, Le   +4 more
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A climate‐sensitive tropical urbanism under extreme heat†

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.
Tropical urban dwellers face twin climate challenges that impinge on their quality of life: climate overheating and the urban heat island (UHI). The latter superimposed on the former to lead to high levels of thermal discomfort, carbon and energy consequences.
Rohinton Emmanuel
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Mapping urban morphology changes in the last two decades based on local climate zone scheme: A case study of three major urban agglomerations in China

, 2023
Urbanization has been bringing extensive land use and land cover change over the last several decades, which has an impact on the urban climate and also further affects public health and energy consumption, due to human activities. The local climate zone
Chen, Guangzhao, Xie, Jing, Ren, Chao, Zhao, Jiyao, Gong, Peng, Chung, Lamuel, Ni, Hao, Yu, Le   +7 more
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Mapping Local Climate Zones (LCZ) Change in the 5 Largest Cities of Switzerland

Urban Science
In the face of climate change and population growth, Local Climate Zone (LCZ) maps have emerged as crucial tools for urban planners and policymakers to address Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects, thereby playing a significant role in mitigating climate change.
Moix, Estelle, Giuliani, Gregory
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Coupling Dual Graph Convolution Network and Residual Network for Local Climate Zone Mapping

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2022
Local climate zone (LCZ) has become a new standard classification scheme in urban landscapes and showed great potential in urban climate research. Traditional classifiers and ordinary neural networks only consider the spectral or local spatial features ...
Yedan Yu, Jie Li, Qiangqiang Yuan, Qian Shi, Huanfeng Shen, Liangpei Zhang   +5 more
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Impact of Spatially Continuous Urban Surface Properties on Summertime and Heatwave Simulations: A Multi‐City Analysis

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Volume 18, Issue 10, October 2026.
Abstract Urban areas are unique in form, function, and fabric, and representing them in process‐based models requires, among other things, prescribing facet‐level morphological and radiative properties, which vary widely. Most urban canopy models (UCMs) prescribe these by density class or local climate zone (LCZ), assigning identical values across ...
Timothy Jiang, TC Chakraborty, Yifan Cheng, Rohit Mukherjee, Lei Zhao, Alberto Martilli   +5 more
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European LCZ map

, 2020
A European Local Climate Zone map at a 100 m spatial resolution, derived from multiple earth observation datasets and expert LCZ class labels. There are 10 urban LCZ types, each associated with a set of relevant variables such that the map represent a ...
Bechtel, Benjamin, Mills, Gerald, Middel, Ariane, Demuzere, Matthias   +3 more
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The suitability of the urban local climate zone classification scheme for surface temperature studies in distinct macroclimate regions

, 2021
The Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification scheme, initially designed to distinguish between standard built (urban) and non-built (land cover) types in terms of screen-level air temperature relevant for urban heat island (UHI) studies, has been widely ...
Ahmed H.M. Eldesoky, Meta Berghauser Pont, Eldesoky, Ahmed H.M., Pont, Meta Berghauser, Eldesoky, Ahmed, Jorge Gil, Berghauser Pont, Meta, Gil, Jorge   +7 more
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