Configuration Characteristics of Green-Blue Spaces for Efficient Cooling in Urban Environments

Quantifying the effects of 2D/3D urban landscape patterns on land surface temperature: A perspective from cities of different sizes

(2023) Hongchao Xu et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

The effect of landscape configuration on outdoor thermal environment: A case of urban Plaza in Xi'an, China

(2023) Haiming Yu et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Heatwave and mental health

(2023) Xin Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Estimation of anthropogenic heat from buildings based on various data sources in Singapore

(2023) Wenhui He et al.   Urban Climate

A novel approach to examining the optimal use of the cooling effect of water bodies in urban planning

(2023) Zehongyu Kang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Assessment of green roofs' potential to improve the urban thermal environment: The case of Beijing

(2023) Yan Fang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Landscape metrics in assessing how the configuration of urban green spaces affects their cooling effect: A systematic review of empirical studies

(2023) Yilun Li et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Urbanization Impact on Regional Climate and Extreme Weather: Current Understanding, Uncertainties, and Future Research Directions

(2022) Yun Qian et al.   ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

Landscape and vegetation traits of urban green space can predict local surface temperature

(2022) Daosheng Chen et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The dominant factors and influence of urban characteristics on land surface temperature using random forest algorithm

(2022) Qi Wang et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Exploring the evapotranspirative cooling effect of a green façade

(2022) Reza Bakhshoodeh et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Prediction of the future urban heat island intensity and distribution based on landscape composition and configuration: A case study in Hangzhou

(2022) Chuhui Shen et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Numerical simulation of the impact of urban canopies and anthropogenic emissions on heat island effect in an industrial area: A case study of Angul-Talcher region in India

(2022) Vivek Kumar Singh et al.   ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

The cooling effects of hybrid landscapes at the district scale in mega-cities: A case study of Shanghai

(2022) Shuo Sheng et al.   Journal of Cleaner Production

Estimating urban spatial temperatures considering anthropogenic heat release factors focusing on the mobility characteristics

(2022) Yesuel Kim et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Bridging landscape ecology and urban science to respond to the rising threat of mosquito-borne diseases

(2022) Pallavi A. Kache et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Measuring the relationship between morphological spatial pattern of green space and urban heat island using machine learning methods

(2022) Jinyao Lin et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Opposite climate impacts on urban green spaces’ cooling efficiency around their coverage change thresholds in major African cities

(2022) Xueyan Cheng et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

The cooling effect of hybrid land-use patterns and their marginal effects at the neighborhood scale

(2021) Yuncai Wang et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Quantitative estimation of meteorological impacts and the COVID-19 lockdown reductions on NO2 and PM2.5 over the Beijing area using Generalized Additive Models (GAM)

(2021) Jinxi Hua et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Estimation of anthropogenic heat flux and its coupling analysis with urban building characteristics – A case study of typical cities in the Yangtze River Delta, China

(2021) Chen Yu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Urban cooling factors: Do small greenspaces outperform building shade in mitigating urban heat island intensity?

(2021) Jonghoon Park et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

How do urban spatial patterns influence the river cooling effect? A case study of the Huangpu Riverfront in Shanghai, China

(2021) Li Jiang et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Influences of wind speed, sky conditions, land use and land cover characteristics on the magnitude of the urban heat island in Seoul: An exploratory analysis

(2021) Jack Ngarambe et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

3D building configuration as the driver of diurnal and nocturnal land surface temperatures: Application in Beijing's old city

(2021) Fengxiang Guo et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Numerical simulation of the nocturnal cooling effect of urban trees considering the leaf area density distribution

(2021) Haruki Oshio et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

A Novel K-Means Clustering Algorithm with a Noise Algorithm for Capturing Urban Hotspots

(2021) Xiaojuan Ran et al.   Applied Sciences-Basel

A quasi-experimental approach for evaluating the heat mitigation effects of green roofs in Chicago, Illinois

(2021) Kathryn McConnell et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Investigating the heterogeneity of water cooling effect for cooler cities

(2021) Yasha Wang et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Climate driven trends in London's urban heat island intensity reconstructed over 70 years using a generalized additive model

(2021) R. Bassett et al.   Urban Climate

The influence of the landscape pattern on the urban land surface temperature varies with the ratio of land components: Insights from 2D/3D building/vegetation metrics

(2021) Peng Zeng et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Spatial pattern of anthropogenic heat flux in monocentric and polycentric cities: The case of Chengdu and Chongqing

(2021) Yujia Ming et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Detecting Cooling Effect of Landscape from Composition and Configuration: An Urban Heat Island Study on Hangzhou

(2020) Hao Hou et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance

(2020) Colin Raymond et al.   Science Advances

Modeling the impact of 2D/3D urban indicators on the urban heat island over different seasons: A boosted regression tree approach

(2020) Yunfeng Hu et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Surface anthropogenic heat islands in six megacities: An assessment based on a triple-source surface energy balance model

(2020) Mohammad Karimi Firozjaei et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

How the landscape features of urban green space impact seasonal land surface temperatures at a city-block-scale: An urban heat island study in Beijing, China

(2020) Lei Yao et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Analyzing the impact of changing landscape pattern and dynamics on land surface temperature of Lucknow city, India

(2020) Anugya Shukla et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Assessing the thermal contributions of urban land cover types

(2020) Jiacheng Zhao et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

On the study of the effects of microclimate and park and surrounding building configuration on thermal comfort in urban parks

(2020) Sin Yi Chan et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

The effects of land use on spatial pattern of urban green spaces and their cooling ability

(2020) Mahyar Masoudi et al.   Urban Climate

The role of blue and green infrastructure in thermal sensation in public urban areas: A case study of summer days in four Czech cities

(2020) Michal Lehnert et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Effects of urban morphology on anthropogenic heat dispersion in tropical high-density residential areas

(2019) A.S. Adelia et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Multi-year comparison of the effects of spatial pattern of urban green spaces on urban land surface temperature

(2019) Mahyar Masoudi et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

How to quantify the relationship between spatial distribution of urban waterbodies and land surface temperature?

(2019) Yasha Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Urban blue-green space planning based on thermal environment simulation: A case study of Shanghai, China

(2019) Hongyu Du et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

How can urban blue-green space be planned for climate adaption in high-latitude cities? A seasonal perspective

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

Thermal environment effects and interactions of reservoirs and forests as urban blue-green infrastructures

(2018) Di Wu et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

The role of geodiversity in providing ecosystem services at broad scales

(2018) Janne Alahuhta et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Spatial regression models of park and land-use impacts on the urban heat island in central Beijing

(2018) Zhaoxin Dai et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Summertime thermal and energy performance of a double-skin green facade: A case study in Shanghai

(2018) Feng Yang et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Quantifying and simulating landscape composition and pattern impacts on land surface temperature: A decadal study of the rapidly urbanizing city of Beijing, China

(2018) Lijia Guo et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The urban heat island effect, its causes, and mitigation, with reference to the thermal properties of asphalt concrete

(2017) Abbas Mohajerani et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Effects of landscape composition and pattern on land surface temperature: An urban heat island study in the megacities of Southeast Asia

(2017) Ronald C. Estoque et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Utilising green and bluespace to mitigate urban heat island intensity

(2017) K.R. Gunawardena et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Quantifying the multilevel effects of landscape composition and configuration on land surface temperature

(2016) Shihong Du et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Review on the impact of urban geometry and pedestrian level greening on outdoor thermal comfort

(2016) Elmira Jamei et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Urban heat islands in China enhanced by haze pollution

(2016) Chang Cao et al.   Nature Communications

Algorithm for Automated Mapping of Land Surface Temperature Using LANDSAT 8 Satellite Data

(2016) Ugur Avdan et al.   Journal of Sensors

Heat stress risk and resilience in the urban environment

(2016) Gertrud Hatvani-Kovacs et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

How many metrics are required to identify the effects of the landscape pattern on land surface temperature?

(2014) Ailian Chen et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Spatial configuration of anthropogenic land cover impacts on urban warming

(2014) Baojuan Zheng et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

The role of one large greenspace in mitigating London's nocturnal urban heat island

(2014) Kieron J. Doick et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Modeling the influence of open water surfaces on the summertime temperature and thermal comfort in the city

(2013) N. E. Theeuwes et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

A systematic review and scientific critique of methodology in modern urban heat island literature

(2010) I. D. Stewart   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Urban greening to cool towns and cities: A systematic review of the empirical evidence

(2010) Diana E. Bowler et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Data clustering: 50 years beyond K-means

(2009) Anil K. Jain   PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS

A simple and fast algorithm for K-medoids clustering

(2008) Hae-Sang Park et al.   EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS