[HTML][HTML] Understanding urban heat vulnerability: Scientometric analysis of five decades of research

F Li, T Yigitcanlar, W Li, M Nepal, K Nguyen, F Dur - Urban Climate, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Urban Heat Vulnerability (UHV) has received increasing attention over the last two
decades due to the exacerbation of global warming and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing heat vulnerability and multidimensional inequity: Lessons from indexing the performance of Australian capital cities

F Li, T Yigitcanlar, M Nepal, K Nguyen, F Dur… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Increased extreme heat, driven by rapid urbanisation and climate change, has caused
increasing heat-related deaths, and posed significant threats to vulnerable populations …

Exploring the scale effect of urban thermal environment through XGBoost model

J He, Y Shi, L Xu, Z Lu, M Feng, J Tang… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The urban thermal environment constitutes a significant aspect of the urban physical
environment and warrants consideration in urban planning. Nonetheless, the nonlinear …

Impact of urban heat islands on morbidity and mortality in heat waves: Observational time series analysis of Spain's five cities

T Cuerdo-Vilches, J Díaz, JA López-Bueno… - Science of the Total …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Urban heat islands (UHIs) have become an especially relevant phenomenon as a
consequence of global warming and the growing proportion of people living in cities. The …

Stereoscopic urban morphology metrics enhance the nonlinear scale heterogeneity modeling of UHI with explainable AI

Y Shen, W Kong, F Fei, X Chen, Y Xu, C Huang, J Yao - Urban Climate, 2024‏ - Elsevier
In urban heat island (UHI) effect modeling, traditional 3D morphological indexes often
homogenize elements within units, leading to a loss of spatial detail. Here we introduce …

[HTML][HTML] Urban heat island impacts on heat-related cardiovascular morbidity: A time series analysis of older adults in US metropolitan areas

SE Cleland, W Steinhardt, LM Neas, JJ West… - Environment …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Many United States (US) cities are experiencing urban heat islands (UHIs) and
climate change-driven temperature increases. Extreme heat increases cardiovascular …

Investigating and map** day-night urban heat island and its driving factors using Sentinel/MODIS data and Google Earth Engine. Case study: greater Cairo, Egypt

RM Abou Samra - Urban Climate, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Urban heat islands (UHI) represent one of the substantial human-induced challenges
endangering urban livelihoods. UHI and climate change have significant interactions …

Examining the suitability of the local climate zones (LCZ) framework in informal urban settlements: Insights from Kabul, Afghanistan

FA Akbari, A Sharifi - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024‏ - Elsevier
To better investigate the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, a standardized framework known as
Local Climate Zones (LCZ) has been developed and widely applied to numerous cities …

[HTML][HTML] Urbanization and the urban critical zone

P Yu, Y Wei, L Ma, B Wang, EHK Yung, Y Chen - Earth Critical Zone, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Urbanization is a crucial driver of not only land use change but also socio-economic
changes, which further affect multiple layers of the surface Earth, thus it significantly impacts …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal patterns and influencing factors of remotely sensed regional heat islands from 2001 to 2020 in Zhengzhou Metropolitan area

Y Li, X Qiao, Y Wang, L Liu - Ecological Indicators, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Develo** urban agglomerations and establishing metropolitan areas have led to urban
heat islands breaking through the original single urban scale to form regional heat islands …