Remote Sensing-Based Outdoor Thermal Comfort Assessment in Local Climate Zones in the Rural–Urban Continuum of eThekwini Municipality, South Africa [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2023 Due to the need to continuously monitor and understand the thermal environment and its socioeconomic implications, this study used remotely sensed data to analyze thermal comfort variation in LCZs, including along the rural to urban gradient of the ...
Terence Darlington Mushore +3 more
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Improving the local climate zone classification with building height, imperviousness, and machine learning for urban models [PDF]
Computational Urban Science, 2022 The Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification is already widely used in urban heat island and other climate studies. The current classification method does not incorporate crucial urban auxiliary GIS data on building height and imperviousness that could ...
Kwun Yip Fung +2 more
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Land, 2022 A GIS-based approach is used in this study to obtain a better LCZ map of Berlin in comparison to the remote-sensing-based WUDAPT L0 approach. The LCZ classification of land use/cover can be used, among other applications, to characterize the urban heat ...
Fadel Muhammad +2 more
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Impact of urban parameterization and integration of WUDAPT on the severe convection
Computational Urban Science, 2022 Amplified rates of urban convective systems pose a severe peril to the life and property of the inhabitants over urban regions, requiring a reliable urban weather forecasting system.
Raghu Nadimpalli +2 more
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Simulation of O3 and NOx in São Paulo street urban canyons with VEIN (v0.2.2) and MUNICH (v1.0) [PDF]
Geoscientific Model Development, 2021 We evaluate the performance of the Model of Urban Network of Intersecting Canyons and Highways (MUNICH) in simulating ozone (O3) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) concentrations within the urban street canyons in the São Paulo metropolitan area (SPMA).
M. E. Gavidia-Calderón +4 more
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Urban growth’s implications on land surface temperature in a medium-sized European city based on LCZ classification [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe study determined the influence of changes in land use and land cover (LULC) on land surface temperature (LST) over a 33-year period based on a medium-sized European city (Poznań, Poland).
Aleksandra Zwolska +2 more
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Urban morphology dataset of Reunion Island based on the local climate zone classification using satellite imagery and GIS dataMendeley Data [PDF]
Data in BriefThis dataset provides a high-resolution spatial classification of urban morphology on Reunion Island, France, using a 100 m x 100 m grid based on the Local Climate Zone (LCZ) framework.
Alexandre Lefevre +4 more
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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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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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LOCAL CLIMATE ZONES: LESSONS FROM SINGAPORE AND POTENTIAL IMPROVEMENT WITH STREET VIEW IMAGERY [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022 Urban heat island (UHI) is considered a serious environmental issue in highly urbanized cities such as Singapore. To better quantify the UHI intensity, the local climate zones (LCZ) classification scheme was adopted to characterize land covers, and ...
M. Ignatius +8 more
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