Mapping Europe into local climate zones. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Cities are major drivers of environmental change at all scales and are especially at risk from the ensuing effects, which include poor air quality, flooding and heat waves.
Matthias Demuzere +3 more
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Contribution of local climate zones to the thermal environment and energy demand [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Urban heat islands (UHIs) and their energy consumption are topics of widespread concern. This study used remote sensing images and building and meteorological data as parameters, with reference to Oke's local climate zone (LCZ), to divide urban areas ...
Ruxin Yang +6 more
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Warming and cooling effects of local climate zones on urban thermal environment [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Understanding the thermal characteristics and contribution ranking of local climate zones (LCZs) is essential since they can help in maintaining environmental harmony.
Rui Zhang +8 more
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Variations of Urban Thermal Risk with Local Climate Zones. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2023 Due to the differences in land cover and natural surroundings within cities, residents in various regions face different thermal risks. Therefore, this study combined multi-source data to analyze the relationship between urban heat risk and local climate zones (LCZ).
Xin J +7 more
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Urban Thermal Characteristics of Local Climate Zones and Their Mitigation Measures across Cities in Different Climate Zones of China [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2021 Understanding the urban thermal environment is vital for improving urban planning and strategy development when mitigating urban heat islands. However, urban thermal characteristics of local climate zones (LCZ) are different within cities and most ...
Nana Li +4 more
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Performance Evaluation of Built Environment in Local Climate Zones [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 The thermal performance of a building is significantly influenced by the climate around it. It is observed that the microclimate of an urban area is notably different from that of the surrounding regions.
SJ Sushanth, Varghese Angel, S Dhanish
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Measuring the relationships between various urban green spaces and local climate zones [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Urban green spaces (UGS) improve living conditions in cities by mitigating the Urban Heat Island effect. While the cooling effect of UGS seems unequivocal, the relationship between the types of UGS and types of residential areas has not yet been well ...
Vlaďka Kirschner +3 more
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Mapping local climate zones of Ljubljana
DelaThe Local Climate Zone (LCZ) framework was introduced to facilitate standardised research in the field of urban climate and other related scientific disciplines.
Tim Gregorčič +3 more
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Local climate zones classification method from Copernicus land monitoring service datasets: An ArcGIS-based toolbox [PDF]
MethodsX, 2020 Local Climate Zones (LCZ) have become a worldwide standard for identifying land cover classes, according to their climate-relevant morphological parameters.
Ana Oliveira +2 more
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Remote sensing applied to classification of local climate zones
Revista Sítio Novo, 2022 Monitoring of representative intra-urban thermal features is a difficult task due to the complexity of urban terrain (OKE, 2004). The characteristics of urbanized areas can be quantified using different methods, including the classification system of ...
Camila Amaro de Souza +2 more
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