Understanding land surface temperature impact factors based on local climate zones

J Yang, J Ren, D Sun, X **ao, JC **a, C **… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The local climate zone (LCZ) and land surface temperature (LST) have gained considerable
attention as urbanization continues to increase. However, the study of LSTs lacks a regional …

Influence of urban morphological characteristics on thermal environment

J Yang, Y Yang, D Sun, C **, X **ao - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Variation in urban microclimate is closely related to the three-dimensional characteristics of
cities. To reveal the influence of urban spatial forms on land surface temperature (LST), the …

Exploring thermal comfort of urban buildings based on local climate zones

J Ren, J Yang, Y Zhang, X **ao, JC **a, X Li… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite increasing attention to rising land surface temperatures (LSTs) and other climate
changes caused by urbanization, few studies have considered the characteristics of LST or …

Optimal allocation of local climate zones based on heat vulnerability perspective

R Zhang, J Yang, X Ma, X **ao, JC **a - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Global climate change presents considerable heating risks to cities, necessitating the
assessment of heat vulnerability characteristics in urban areas for the advancement of …

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

J Yang, S **, X **ao, C **, JC **a, X Li… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Performance-based planning (PBP) is designed to determine city planning standards based
on local activity characteristics; however, there have been few practical applications of this …

Impact of land use change and urbanization on urban heat island in Lucknow city, Central India. A remote sensing based estimate

P Singh, N Kikon, P Verma - Sustainable cities and society, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, the negative impact of urbanization over a time and its effect on increasing
trend of temperature and degradation of urban ecology was assessed using the Landsat …

The mediation effect of land surface temperature in the relationship between land use-cover change and energy consumption under seasonal variations

P Wang, P Yu, J Lu, Y Zhang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing temperatures in urban areas have brought about a series of prevalent
environmental and energy shortage problems. Many studies have focused on the …

Relationship among land surface temperature and LUCC, NDVI in typical karst area

Y Deng, S Wang, X Bai, Y Tian, L Wu, J **ao, F Chen… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Land surface temperature (LST) can reflect the land surface water-heat exchange process
comprehensively, which is considerably significant to the study of environmental change …

Urban heat island analysis using the Landsat TM data and ASTER data: A case study in Hong Kong

L Liu, Y Zhang - Remote sensing, 2011 - mdpi.com
In this paper, the effect of urban heat island is analyzed using the Landsat TM data and
ASTER data in 2005 as a case study in Hong Kong. Two algorithms were applied to retrieve …

A comparison of eddy-covariance and large aperture scintillometer measurements with respect to the energy balance closure problem

SM Liu, ZW Xu, WZ Wang, ZZ Jia… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2011 - hess.copernicus.org
We analyzed the seasonal variations of energy balance components over three different
surfaces: irrigated cropland (Yingke, YK), alpine meadow (A'rou, AR), and spruce forest …