Investigation of Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect in Yangon City by using Remote Sensing & GIS [PDF]
, 2020 Yangon is the old capital city and the most important commercial city of Myanmar. The urban area of Yangon city has been rising rapidly and great changes have taken place in the past 20 years, especially after 2000.
Thae Naung Lwin, Pyae Hpone Naing
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Environmental Research Letters, 2019 A suitable thermal environment is important for the economy, society and public health in urban areas. However, the understanding of the relationship between the urban heat island (UHI) effect and background temperature (T-UHI) is very limited.
Zhen Gao, Ying Hou, Weiping Chen
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Urban Heat Island Study Based on Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System: Correlation between Land Cover and Surface Temperature [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesSignificant changes in urban environmental characteristics such as altered land use and a higher population density contribute to the formation of the urban heat island (UHI) phenomena.
Somantri Lili, Himayah Shafira
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Overview of urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon towards human thermal comfort [PDF]
, 2017 Urban Heat Island (UHI) is expected to be a disastrous challenge to human in the following decade as a result of continuous urbanization without appropriate planning and design.
Md Din, Mohd Fadhil +11 more
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Rapid neighbourhood-scale modelling of urban heat risks for early-stage quantification of potential passive design mitigation strategy effectiveness: Copenhagen test case [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThis study employed the urban weather generator (UWG) to model the formation of the urban heat island (UHI) across the twelve (12) districts (bydele) of the City of Copenhagen (Københavns Kommune).
Swedberg Nicholas C.
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SURFACE URBAN HEAT ISLANDS AND RELATED HEALTH RISK IN THE PHILIPPINES: A GEOSPATIAL ASSESSMENT USING MODIS DATA [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2023 The study assessed the heat-health risk of the Philippines during 2020 using the MODIS derived Urban Heat Island (UHI) and gridded population data. The study found out that the urban areas experienced more intense heat than the rural areas.
D. C. D. M. Vergara +2 more
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Variations microclimatiques et effet de la végétation dans la ville aride de Ghardaïa, Algérie
VertigO, 2022 Characterizing urban climate in hot arid cities is a key step to understand the interactions of climatic variables with the built-up and the vegetation.
Rachid Amieur +2 more
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Determination and Mitigation of Urban Heat Island (UHI) In Lahore (A comparative Study of Landsat 8&9) [PDF]
, 2022 The term "Urban Heat Island" (UHI) refers to a city or metropolitan area that is significantly warmer than its surroundings. Heatwaves are one of the most visible hazards associated with UHI, that intensified exponentially over the last two decades.
Mahmood Mayo, Shaker +4 more
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Journal of Urban ManagementA global phenomenon identified 200 years ago as Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect gained popularity as the sheer contributor to the precipitous temperature gradient between rural and urban interface, instigating excess heat gain and associated ill effects ...
Mohamed H. Elnabawi, Reshna Raveendran
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On the self-ventilation of an urban heat island
Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 2019 Measurements of a new German Meteorological Service urban observation network in Hannover were used to analyse the urban heat island (UHI) and the dynamics of urban wind.
Günter Gross
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