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Development and appraisal of long-term adaptation pathways for managing heat-risk in London
Climate Risk Management, 2017 The risk of residential overheating and mortality is increasing due to the effects of global warming and the urban heat island effect and needs to be addressed through climate change adaptation.
Ashley Kingsborough +2 more
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A statistical model for estimating mean maximum urban heat island
, 2003 Investigations concentrated on the urban heat island (UHI) in its strongest development during the diurnal cycle. Task includes development of statistical models in the heating and non-heating seasons using urban surface parameters (built-up and water ...
Bottyán, Zsolt +4 more
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Sustainable Urban Future in Southern Europe - What About the Heat Island Effect? [PDF]
In general cities, and especially cities in hot zones, as the Mediterranean, suffer from raised temperatures in the city core, generally known as the heat island effect.
Eleftheria Alexandri, Phil Jones
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Thermal management of an unconsolidated shallow urban groundwater body [PDF]
, 2013 This study presents the development of tools for the sustainable thermal management of a shallow unconsolidated urban groundwater body in the city of Basel (Switzerland). The concept of the investigations is based on (1) a characterization of the present
F. Händel +5 more
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On the determination of the spatial energy balance of a megacity on the example of Cairo, Egypt [PDF]
, 2010 This research deals with different aspects of the spatial urban energy balance on the example of the megacity Cairo, Egypt. The energy balance and its single terms were measured in situ during a field campaign in Cairo at three different locations (urban,
Frey, Corinne Myrtha
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Ecological IndicatorsThe Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is a major environmental challenge in global urbanization. As urbanization progresses, the UHI effect in individual cities has expanded regionally, forming Regional Heat Islands (RHI). However, strategies for mitigating
Qunyue Liu +10 more
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Impact of Urbanization on Global and Regional Humid Heat and Population Humid Heat Exposure [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesExtreme heat events pose great threats to public health and socioeconomic development, particularly in cities where the urban heat island (UHI) effect can exacerbate heat stress.
Xu Jiawei
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, 2017 When urban areas experience higher temperature than their surrounding rural areas, this phenomenon is called the urban heat island (UHI) effect. UHI contributes to global warming.
Deilami, Kaveh
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, 2009 Urban heat island is a phenomenon that the temperature of urban area is higher than surrounding rural area or suburban area, which is considered as one of major problems in the 21st century posed to human beings.
Shi,Ping +3 more
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Atmosphere, 2018 Atmospheric blocking is a long standing structure stalled in the mid-troposphere which is often associated with extreme weather events such as droughts, heatwaves, flood and cold air outbreak. A striking atmospheric blocking is identified to persist over
Li Dong +3 more
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