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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Monitoring urban heat island through google earth engine. Potentialities and difficulties in different cities of the United States [PDF]
, 2018 The aim of this work is to exploit the large-scale analysis capabilities of the innovative Google Earth Engine platform in order to investigate the temporal variations of the Urban Heat Island phenomenon as a whole. A intuitive methodology implementing a
A. Nascetti +6 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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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.
Chelliapan, Shreeshivadasan +5 more
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Thermal comfort in the historical urban canyon: the effect of innovative materials [PDF]
, 2017 Urban heat island (UHI) can considerably affect the thermal quality of the urban environment, especially within urban canyons, that have typically low sky view factor and limited surface heat re-emission capability.
Castaldo, Veronica Lucia +8 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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Features of the formation of urban heat islands effects in tropical climates and their impact on the ecology of the city [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 The cumulative heating in some urban areas due to the urban growth and its types of industry, energy and transport, is the effect of urban heat island (UHI). It is recognized as one of the characteristics of the urban climate.
Le Minh Tuan, Tran Nguyen Anh Quan
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Green Roof Technology- Mitigate Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2016 Las alteraciones en las superficies terrestres, que son atribuidas por las actividades humanas, especialmente en las ciudades, causan muchas implicaciones para el ecosistema. El aumento de los edificios en las ciudades refleja que el crecimiento de las actividades humanas dio como resultado un aumento significativo de la temperatura y un patrón más ...
Zaity Syazwani Mohd Odli +5 more
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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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