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Surface urban heat island effects intensify more rapidly in lower income countries

npj Urban Sustainability
As urbanization proceeds globally in recent decades, a nuanced understanding of the differential impacts of the urban heat island (UHI) effect across income country groups is crucial.
Yuan Yuan, Mattheos Santamouris, Dong Xu, X. Geng, Chengwei Li, Wanqing Cheng, Ling Su, Peng Xiong, Zhengqiu Fan, Xiangrong Wang, Chuan Liao   +10 more
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Simulating the effects of cool roof and PCM (phase change materials) based roof to mitigate UHI (urban heat island) in prominent US cities

, 2016
UHI (Urban Heat Island) has become a serious concern within major cities due to the increased threat of climate change over time. As UHI intensifies, the energy consumed in urban areas increases through an increase in the cooling demand, and restricts ...
K. K. Roman, T. J. O'Brien, Jedediah B. Alvey, O. Woo   +3 more
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Mitigating urban heat island through neighboring rural land cover

Nature Cities
Globally, the deteriorating Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect poses a significant threat to human health and undermines ecosystem stability. UHI mitigation strategies have been investigated and utilized extensively within cities by the provision of green ...
Miao Yang, Chen Ren, Haorui Wang, Junqi Wang, Zhuangbo Feng, Prashant Kumar, Fariborz Haghighat, Shi-jie Cao   +7 more
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Context-dependent relationships between street-level surface heat intensity, the sky view factor, and landscape patterns: Examples from the coastal city of Vancouver, Canada

Ecological Informatics
With climate change, some coastal urban regions once characterized by mild oceanic climates, are becoming increasingly hot in the summer. Urban design can modify urban landscapes to mitigate the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, but many strategies are ...
Baifei Ren, Luke Bergmann
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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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Data‐driven urban modelling: the case of explainable detection of Urban Heat Island (UHI)

, 2023
Nasim Eslamirad Doctoral Thesis completed draft.
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Determination of land surface temperature and urban heat island effects with remote sensing capabilities: the case of Kayseri, Türkiye

Natural Hazards
Kayseri, a densely urbanized province in Türkiye, grapples with pressing challenges of air pollution and limited green spaces, accentuating the need for strategic urban planning.
Mehmet Çetin, Mehtap Ozenen Kavlak, Muzeyyen Anil Senyel Kurkcuoglu, Gulsah Bilge Ozturk, S. Çabuk, A. Çabuk   +5 more
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CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF SURFACE TEMPERATURE OF ROOFTOPS, STREETSCAPES AND URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT: CASE STUDY OF CENTRAL SYDNEY

Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering, 2015
Cities are frequently experiencing artificial heat stress, known as the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. The UHI effect is commonly present in cities due to increased urbanization, where anthropogenic heat and human modifications have altered the ...
Ehsan Sharifi, Steffen Lehmann
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Continent‐wide parallel urban evolution of increased heat tolerance in a common moth

Evolutionary Applications
Urbanization and its urban‐heat‐island effect (UHI) have expanding footprints worldwide. The UHI means that urban habitats experience a higher mean and more frequent extreme high temperatures than rural habitats, impacting the ontogeny and resilience of ...
Thomas Merckx, Matthew E. Nielsen, Tuomas Kankaanpää, Tomáš Kadlec, Mahtab Yazdanian, Sami M. Kivelä   +5 more
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Examinations on the role of synoptic conditions in urban heat island development in Debrecen [PDF]

, 2013
Thermal differences between settlements and their rural environment called urban heat island (UHI) have a remarkable impact on heating and cooling energy demand of buildings.
László, Elemér, Lázár, István, Szegedi, Sándor, Tóth, Tamás   +3 more
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