Optimizing local climate zones to mitigate urban heat island effect in human settlements

Assessment of Urban Heat Risk in Mountain Environments: A Case Study of Chongqing Metropolitan Area, China

(2020) Dechao Chen et al.   Sustainability

Do grey infrastructures always elevate urban temperature? No, utilizing grey infrastructures to mitigate urban heat island effects

(2019) Jin-Da Qi et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Population Mapping with Multisensor Remote Sensing Images and Point-Of-Interest Data

(2019) Xuchao Yang et al.   Remote Sensing

Impacts of urban configuration on urban heat island: An empirical study in China mega-cities

(2019) Wenze Yue et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Local climate zone ventilation and urban land surface temperatures: Towards a performance-based and wind-sensitive planning proposal in megacities

(2019) Jun Yang et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Enhancing urban ventilation performance through the development of precinct ventilation zones: A case study based on the Greater Sydney, Australia

(2019) Bao-Jie He et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Impact of urban heat island on energy demand in buildings: Local climate zones in Nanjing

(2019) Xiaoshan Yang et al.   APPLIED ENERGY

Effectiveness of green and cool roofs in mitigating urban heat island effects during a heatwave event in the city of Melbourne in southeast Australia

(2018) H.M. Imran et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

The potential of local climate zones maps as a heat stress assessment tool, supported by simulated air temperature data

(2018) Marie-Leen Verdonck et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Urban hot-tubs: Local urbanization has profound effects on average and extreme temperatures in ponds

(2018) Kristien I. Brans et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Effects of urban form on the urban heat island effect based on spatial regression model

(2018) Chaohui Yin et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Modelled spatiotemporal variability of outdoor thermal comfort in local climate zones of the city of Brno, Czech Republic

(2018) Jan Geletič et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Influence of a large urban park on the local urban thermal environment

(2018) Hai Yan et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A Human Settlement Composite Index (HSCI) Derived from Nighttime Luminosity Associated with Imperviousness and Vegetation Indexes

(2018) Ting Ma et al.   Remote Sensing

Potentiality of Using Luojia 1-01 Nighttime Light Imagery to Investigate Artificial Light Pollution

(2018) Wei Jiang et al.   SENSORS

Would LEED-UHI greenery and high albedo strategies mitigate climate change at neighborhood scale in Cairo, Egypt?

(2018) Mohammad Fahmy et al.   Building Simulation

Quantifying urban heat island intensity and its physical mechanism using WRF/UCM

(2018) Huidong Li et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Improved population mapping for China using remotely sensed and points-of-interest data within a random forests model

(2018) Tingting Ye et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Classification of Local Climate Zones Using ASTER and Landsat Data for High-Density Cities

(2017) Yong Xu et al.   IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Evaluation of outdoor human thermal sensation of local climate zones based on long-term database

(2017) János Unger et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Urban ventilation network model: A case study of the core zone of capital function in Beijing metropolitan area

(2017) Zhi Qiao et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Urban morphology detection and computation for urban climate research

(2017) Yong Xu et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Assessing the impacts of urbanization-associated green space on urban land surface temperature: A case study of Dalian, China

(2017) Jun Yang et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Impact of Urban Climate Landscape Patterns on Land Surface Temperature in Wuhan, China

(2017) Yasha Wang et al.   Sustainability

Climate–vegetation control on the diurnal and seasonal variations of surface urban heat islands in China

(2016) Decheng Zhou et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Contributing to WUDAPT: A Local Climate Zone Classification of Two Cities in Ukraine

(2016) Olha Danylo et al.   IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Characterizing the spatial dynamics of land surface temperature–impervious surface fraction relationship

(2016) Jiong Wang et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Realizing the impacts of a 1.5 °C warmer world

(2016) Daniel Mitchell et al.   Nature Climate Change

Night-time light derived estimation of spatio-temporal characteristics of urbanization dynamics using DMSP/OLS satellite data

(2015) Ting Ma et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

An Improved Mono-Window Algorithm for Land Surface Temperature Retrieval from Landsat 8 Thermal Infrared Sensor Data

(2015) Fei Wang et al.   Remote Sensing

Satellite-Derived Subsurface Urban Heat Island

(2014) Wenfeng Zhan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Environmental Consequences of Rapid Urbanization in Zhejiang Province, East China

(2014) Xuchao Yang et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Evaluation of the ‘local climate zone’ scheme using temperature observations and model simulations

(2013) Iain D. Stewart et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Local Climate Zones for Urban Temperature Studies

(2012) I. D. Stewart et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

A simple method for designation of urban ventilation corridors and its application to urban heat island analysis

(2010) Man Sing Wong et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

A review on the generation, determination and mitigation of Urban Heat Island

(2008) Ahmed Memon RIZWAN et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Regional mapping of human settlements in southeastern China with multisensor remotely sensed data

(2008) Dengsheng Lu et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT