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Urban heat island (UHI) spatiotemporal pattern in comparison with NDBI before–after COVID-19 pandemic in Sleman Regency, Indonesia
Urban growth is known to be the main factor of urban heat islands (UHI), an important indicator of global warming. However, another anomaly was where...
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Spatio-Temporal Variations and Effect of COVID-19 Led Lockdown on Urban Heat Island (UHI) and Urban Pollution Island (UPI) Over Delhi Region During 2017–2021
The urban environment is at substantial risk due to the pace of urbanization. There are two major components of the urban environment viz.
urban... 
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Sensitivity of urban heat island intensity to different urban surface descriptions over Warsaw
This study explores how urban land cover affects the formation of an urban heat island (UHI) over Warsaw, Poland. A high-resolution version of the...
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Characteristics of the Urban Heat Island in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Its Interaction with Heat Waves
This study examines the characteristics of the urban heat island (UHI) in Dhaka, the densely populated capital city of Bangladesh under the influence...
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Monitoring urban heat island intensity based on GNSS tomography technique
Monitoring urban heat island (UHI) effect is critical because it causes health problems and excessive energy consumption more energy when cooling...
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Investigating the relationship between urban sprawl and urban heat island using remote sensing and machine learning approaches
Urbanization is triggering the expansion in an unplanned and unrestricted manner, growth of outward expansion for some areas. One such important...
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Urban heat island effect and its drivers in large cities of Pakistan
This study assessed the urban heat island (UHI) effect and its driver in five major cities of Pakistan from 2001 to 2022 using Moderate Resolution...
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Urban Heat Island vulnerability map** using advanced GIS data and tools
Urban Heat Island (UHI) is a phenomenon that can cause hotspots in city areas due to dense, impervious infrastructure and minimal vegetation cover....
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Investigating the spatio-temporal correlation between urban heat island and atmospheric pollution island interaction over Delhi, India using geospatial techniques
Increasing temperatures in urban areas cause an increase in air conditioning demands, elevated pollution levels, and may modify precipitation...
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Urban heat island and ecological condition modeling using thermal remote sensing in Tigray–Northern Ethiopia
The detection of Urban Thermal Field Variance Index and Ecological condition was generally conducted based on the thermal remote sensing. This study...
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Dynamics of urban sprawl on the peri-urban landscape and its relationship with urban heat island in Chennai Metropolitan Area, India
Economic expansion has fostered urbanization in develo** countries. Communities encountering rapid urbanization have a significant impact on the...
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Determination of land surface temperature and urban heat island effects with remote sensing capabilities: the case of Kayseri, Türkiye
Kayseri, a densely urbanized province in Türkiye, grapples with pressing challenges of air pollution and limited green spaces, accentuating the need...
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Impacts of Changes in Soil Moisture on Urban Heat Islands and Urban Breeze Circulations: Idealized Ensemble Simulations
Soil moisture plays important roles in land surface and hydrological processes, and its changes can greatly affect weather and climate. In this...
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Characteristics of Remotely Sensed Urban Pollution Island (UPI) & its Linkage with Surface Urban Heat Island (SUHI) over Eastern India
The urbanisation and its detrimental impact on climate is a well-documented phenomenon in today’s world, but research documenting the Urban Pollution...
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Topoclimatic characteristics of Zahlé (Eastern Lebanon): Thermal breezes and urban heat island phenomenon – Preliminary results
This work examines the topoclimatic characteristics of Zahlé, specifically thermal breezes and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon. Three-hourly...
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Impact of land use land cover on variation of urban heat island characteristics and surface energy fluxes using WRF and urban canopy model over metropolitan cities of India
The present study focuses on the assessment of urban heat island (UHI) and urban energy fluxes over Indian metropolitan cities. For this purpose, a...
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Temperature and urban heat island effect in Lublin city in Poland under changing climate
This study investigates the characteristics of the temperature regimes at an urban station (Litewski square) in Lublin city in Poland and a nearby...
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Urban heat island mitigation via geometric configuration
The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon has gained a global interest with the growing number of urbanized areas. This paper explores how the...
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Modern Changes of the Urban Heat Island in Moscow
AbstractAccording to the meteorological network data for the period of 1991–2020, as well as the radiometric measurements of the surface temperature T
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Factors Influencing the Spatial Variability of Air Temperature Urban Heat Island Intensity in Chinese Cities
Few studies have investigated the spatial patterns of the air temperature urban heat island (AUHI) and its controlling factors. In this study, the...