Improving the urban wind climate yields substantial advantages, encompassing enhanced
public health, increased pedestrian safety, improved building energy efficiency, and effective …

Background: Urban populations are highly vulnerable to the adverse effects of heat, with
heat-related mortality showing intra-urban variations that are likely due to differences in …

Abstract Urban Heat Island (UHI) is posing a significant challenge due to growing
urbanisations across the world. Green infrastructure (GI) is popularly used for mitigating the …

While climate change projections for the Mediterranean region indicate an increased
exposure to heatwaves (HW), such prospects are particularly challenging in urban areas …

The increase and optimization of urban vegetation has been considered an effective
mitigation measure of an urban heat island (UHI), with positive effects on human thermal …

To date, top-down approaches have played a fundamental role in expanding the
comprehension of both existing, and future, climatological patterns. In liaison, the focus …

As the majority of people living in cities around the world continues to grow, the challenges
connected with life in densely populated urban areas are growing as well. One of the most …

Lisbon is a European Mediterranean city, greatly exposed to heatwaves (HW), according to
recent trends and climate change prospects. Considering the Atlantic influence, air …

This study analyzes the influence of urban-geographical variables on determining heat
islands and proposes a model to estimate and spatialize the maximum intensity of urban …

In this study UHI in Lisbon's Metropolitan Area (LMA) is analyzed through Local Weather
Types (LWT) using an air temperature dataset produced by Copernicus. Over 61,000 hourly …