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Impacts of Roof/Ground Mitigation Strategies on Improving the Urban Thermal Environment and Human Comfort over the Yangtze River Delta, China
The combined effects of global warming and the urban heat islands exacerbate the risk of urban heat stress. It is crucial to implement effective...
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About the Annual Course of Moscow Heat Island and the Impact on It of the Quarantine Measures to Prevent the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020
AbstractSeasonal differences in the Moscow urban heat-island intensity (UHII) have been studied in detail based on data obtained in 2018–2020 by the...
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Surface Urban Heat Island (SUHI) Over Riverside Cities Along the Gangetic Plain of India
Rapid urbanisation in India has led to increased land use and energy demand, and the consequent uncontrolled development and increased human-induced...
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Three-Dimensional Urban Thermal Effect across a Large City Cluster during an Extreme Heat Wave: Observational Analysis
Given extensive and rapid urbanization globally, assessing regional urban thermal effects (UTE) in both canopy and boundary layers under extreme...
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Prediction of Urban Heat Island Effect over **an City Using the Markov-Cellular Automata Model Combined with Urban Biophysical Descriptors
The feasibility of integrating urban biophysical descriptors into land surface temperature (LST) prediction in a rapidly urbanizing region, **an,...
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A Spatio-Temporal Assessment and Prediction of Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity Using Multiple Linear Regression Techniques Over Ahmedabad City, Gujarat
The present study intends to understand the variability in land surface temperature and urban heat island over Ahmedabad city, Gujarat, from 2003 to...
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Convection Initiation of a Heavy Rainfall Event in the Coastal Metropolitan Region of Shanghai on the South Side of the Meiyu Front
Accurate prediction of the convection initiation (CI) in urban areas is still a challenge. A heavy rainfall event, missed by the 9-km regional...
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Analysing the trending nature in land surface temperature on different land use land cover changes in urban lakes, West Bengal, India
Lakes are known to be the bearers and carriers of any ecosystem. Lakes appropriately assist in local weather regulation in a growing urban area. But...
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Estimation of intra-urban thermal variability in Ahmedabad city using moving vehicle transects
AbstractTemperature differences within a city are called Intra-Urban Heat Islands (IUHI) and are important to estimate as they directly affect human...
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Experimental investigation of the thermal usability of outdoor environments in rideability, walkability, entertainmentability, exercisability and workability for urban heat mitigation, adaptation and governance
This study develops a quantitative method to assess the thermal usability (e.g., rideability, walkability, entertainmentability, exercisability and...
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Assessment of Urban Climate Environment and Configuration of Ventilation Corridor: A Refined Study in **’an
Integrating urban spatial landscape (USL) parameters into refined climate environment assessment is important. By taking the central urban area (CUA)...
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The Urban Boundary Layer
In this chapter, we wish to compare and contrast processes in the boundary layer over a city with those in the boundary layer over a natural or rural...
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CA-ANN based LULC prediction and influence assessment on LST-NDVI using multi-temporal satellite images
The rapid urbanization observed in various regions worldwide has led to the transformation of agricultural, forest, and green spaces into grey areas....
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Using Landsat 8 data to compare percent impervious surface area and normalized difference vegetation index as indicators of urban heat island effects in Connecticut, USA
This empirical research examines the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and the percent impervious surface area (%ISA) as indicators of...
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Urban Heat Island in Moscow Derived from Satellite Data
AbstractThe results of surface temperature measurements in the Moscow region by Aqua and Terra satellites are presented for the period of 2008–2015....
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Estimation of impacts of land use and land cover (LULC) changes on land surface temperature (LST) within greater Imphal urban area using geospatial technique
The rapid increase in the urbanisation process and other developmental activities across the globe have increased the land surface temperature of...
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Urban Heat Island studies: Current status in India and a comparison with the International studies
Urbanization has resulted in many critical issues like increase in pollution levels, sudden climatic changes and the rise of temperature in the urban...
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Tempospatial Pattern of Surface Wind Speed and the “Urban Stilling Island” in Bei**g City
An hourly-resolution dataset from observations at the automatic weather stations (AWSs) is developed and applied to study the characteristics of...
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Characteristics of the Park Cool Island in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Mobile bicycle transects were conducted in Golden Gate Park and surrounding residential neighborhoods of San Francisco, CA, during the period...
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Identification of Urban Growth Typology and its Association with Thermal Environment: A Study of Siliguri Urban Agglomeration, West Bengal, India
Rapid urbanization and consequent disappearance of vegetation cover and increase in impervious surface have accelerated the increase in land surface...
