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• An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0).

  Authors:Naika Meili, Gabriele Manoli, Paolo Burlando, Elie Bou-Zeid, Winston T. L. Chow, Andrew M. Coutts, et al.From:Geoscientific Model Development (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 31, 2020383 words Brief article Increasing urbanization is likely to intensify the urban heat island effect, decrease outdoor thermal comfort, and enhance runoff generation in cities. Urban green spaces are often proposed as a mitigation strategy to...

• Simmering inequity: a city's worst heat hits low-income residents

  From:Nature (Vol. 574, Issue 7778) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 2019228 words Brief article 1250LThe burden of the 'urban heat-island' effect falls most heavily on economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. The burden of the 'urban heat-island' effect falls most heavily on economically disadvantaged...

• Urban Physiology: City Ants Possess High Heat Tolerance

  Authors:Michael J. Angilletta, Robbie S. Wilson, Amanda C. Niehaus, Michael W. Sears, Carlos A. Navas, and Pedro L. RibeiroFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 2, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 28, 20073,232 words Article 1450LUrbanization has caused regional increases in temperature that exceed those measured on a global scale, leading to urban heat islands as much as 12°C hotter than their surroundings. Optimality models predict...

• Urban canopy meteorological forcing and its impact on ozone and PM.sub.2.5: role of vertical turbulent transport

  Authors:Peter Huszar, KarlickA1, Jana Aoubalova, KateAina SindelaAova, Tereza Novakova, Michal Belda, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 20, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 21, 2020634 words Brief article It is well known that the urban canopy (UC) layer, i.e., the layer of air corresponding to the assemblage of the buildings, roads, park, trees and other objects typical to cities, is characterized by specific...

• Examining seasonal effect of urban heat island in a coastal city

  Authors:Xiangli Wu, Lin Zhang, and Shuying ZangFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 14, 20194,853 words Report 1480LUrban heat islands (UHIs) have a significant and negative impact on the urban ecological environment and on human health, and it is imperative to examine factors that lead to UHIs. Although numerous studies have been...

• Urbanization-induced urban heat island and aerosol effects on climate extremes in the Yangtze River Delta region of China

  Authors:Shi Zhong, Yun Qian, Chun Zhao, Ruby Leung, Hailong Wang, Ben Yang, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 17, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 27, 2017421 words Author abstract, Bri... The WRF-Chem model coupled with a single-layer urban canopy model (UCM) is integrated for 5 years at convection-permitting scale to investigate the individual and combined impacts of urbanization-induced...

• Assessing the quantitative relationships between the impervious surface area and surface heat island effect during urban expansion.

  Authors:Xiaoliang Ma and Shuangyun PengFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  July 23, 202113,246 words Article 1480LAs an important component of underlying urban surfaces, the distribution pattern and density of the impervious surface area (ISA) play an important role in the generation of surface urban heat island (SUHI) effects....

• A Review of Remotely Sensed Surface Urban Heat Islands from the Fresh Perspective of Comparisons among Different Regions.

  Authors:Zhao-Liang Li, Menglin Si, and Pei LengFrom:Progress In Electromagnetics Research C (Vol. 102) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20208,618 words Report 1470LUrban heat islands (UHIs) threaten the ecological environment and human health. A large number of studies have focused on surface UHIs (SUHIs) across different spatial and temporal scales around the world with the...

• Study finds convection an important part of urban heat effect

  From:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 96, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 2015407 words Article 1460LWith more than half the world's population living in cities, it's important to understand how climate in urban areas can be different from that in surrounding regions. NCAR is utilizing software that can simulate...

• Mitigating the urban heat island effect in megacity Tehran

  Authors:Sahar Sodoudi, Parisa Shahmohamadi, Ken Vollack, Ulrich Cubasch, and A.I. Che-AniFrom:Advances in MeteorologyPeer-Reviewed

  Annual 201411,732 words Report 1480LCities demonstrate higher nocturnal temperatures than surrounding rural areas, which is called "urban heat island" (UHI) effect. Climate change projections also indicate increase in the frequency and intensity of heat...

• A CITY'S BLUEPRINT INFLUENCES ITS HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS

  From:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 99, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 2018403 words Article 1620LWith urban populations continuing to rise throughout the world, it is increasingly important to understand the urban heat island (UHI) effect, in which building materials of urban areas absorb and retain more heat than...

• Connecting transportation scenarios and extreme heat exposure in urban areas.

  Authors:Alex Karner, D.M. Hondula, and J.K. VanosFrom:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 96, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 1, 2015463 words Article 1620LPlanning agencies around the world are increasingly seeking to create transportation systems that facilitate walking, biking, and public transit use to simultaneously achieve goals of positive public health outcomes and...

• Using Publicly Available Long-Term Climate Records in Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Big Data Curriculum.

  Authors:Richelle L. Tanner and Lisa E. CollinsFrom:Journal of College Science Teaching (Vol. 51, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov-Dec 20213,260 words Article 1390LUnderstanding data analysis and interpreting data are key components of teaching interdisciplinary undergraduate students. We detail a semester-long research project that introduces students to long-term data sets,...

• Validation of ASTER surface temperature data with in situ measurements to evaluate heat islands in complex urban areas

  Authors:Bonggeun Song and Kyunghun ParkFrom:Advances in MeteorologyPeer-Reviewed

  Annual 20146,074 words Report 1470LThis study compared Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) surface temperature data with in situ measurements to validate the use of ASTER data for studying heat islands in urban settings...

• Multi-model comparison of urban heat island modelling approaches

  Author:Michal BeldaFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 18, Issue 14) Peer-Reviewed

  July 26, 2018268 words Author abstract, Bri...

  Cities are characterized by different physical properties of surface compared to their rural counterparts, resulting in a specific regime of the meteorological phenomenon. Our study aims to evaluate the impact of...

• Effects on Local Temperature and Energy of Oasis City Expansion in Arid Area of Northwest China.

  Authors:Miao Zhang, Geping Luo, Peng Cai, and Rafiq HamdiFrom:Journal of Sensors (Vol. 2019) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20206,430 words Article 1610LThe land surface model SURFEX 7.3 was used to study climate effect of urban expansion located in oasis in arid area of Northwest China by surface and 2 m urban heat island (UHI) intensity and available energy ratio (B)....

• Modelling spatiotemporal variations of the canopy layer urban heat island in Beijing at the neighbourhood scale.

  Authors:Michael Biggart, Jenny Stocker, Ruth M. Doherty, Oliver Wild, David Carruthers, Sue Grimmond, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 17) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 14, 2021364 words Brief article Information on the spatiotemporal characteristics of Beijing's urban-rural near-surface air temperature difference, known as the canopy layer urban heat island (UHI), is important for future urban climate management...

• Spatial and temporal variation of heat islands in the main urban area of Zhengzhou under the two-way influence of urbanization and urban forestry.

  Authors:Yarong Yang, Fan Song, Jie Ma, Zheng Wei, Lili Song, and Wei CaoFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 10, 20229,952 words Report 1480LUrban heat islands are major factors hindering the quality of present-day urban habitats. The ongoing acceleration of the worldwide urbanization process is leading to an exacerbation of the urban heat island effect;...

• Sub-mesoscale observations of convective cold pools with a dense station network in Hamburg, Germany.

  Authors:Bastian Kirsch, Cathy Hohenegger, Daniel Klocke, Rainer Senke, Michael Offermann, and Felix AmentFrom:Earth System Science Data (Vol. 14, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 4, 2022297 words Brief article From June to August 2020, an observational network of 103 meteorological ground-based stations covered the greater area (50 km x 35 km) of Hamburg (Germany) as part of the Field Experiment on Sub-mesoscale...

• Research on Land Use Change and Ecological Environment Effect Based on Remote Sensing Sensor Technology.

  Authors:Yuntong Liu, Dan Zhang, Kuan He, Qiong Gao, and Fen QinFrom:Journal of Sensors (Vol. 2021) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 17, 20216,581 words Article 1400LIn the regional landscape pattern, woodland landscape patches are developed in a regular manner, showing a trend of agglomeration as a whole; the concentration and dominance of landscape patches of cultivated land,...