Beating the urban heat: Situation, background, impacts and the way forward in China

BJ He, J Wang, J Zhu, J Qi - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reviews urban heat (UrHT) challenges following the SBAR (situation,
background, assessment and recommendation) framework. The results indicate that …

Urbanization impact on regional climate and extreme weather: Current understanding, uncertainties, and future research directions

Y Qian, TC Chakraborty, J Li, D Li, C He… - … in Atmospheric Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Urban environments lie at the confluence of social, cultural, and economic activities and
have unique biophysical characteristics due to continued infrastructure development that …

Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities

A Hsu, G Sheriff, T Chakraborty, D Manya - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Urban heat stress poses a major risk to public health. Case studies of individual cities
suggest that heat exposure, like other environmental stressors, may be unequally distributed …

[HTML][HTML] Urban heat island mitigation by green infrastructure in European Functional Urban Areas

F Marando, MP Heris, G Zulian, A Udías… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is one of the most harmful environmental
hazards for urban dwellers. Climate change is expected to increase the intensity of the UHI …

Relationship between urban spatial form and seasonal land surface temperature under different grid scales

Y Chen, J Yang, W Yu, J Ren, X **ao, JC **a - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The urban heat island (UHI) effect is intensifying with increasing urbanization. As an
important representation of the UHI effect and the urban thermal environment, it is critical to …

[PDF][PDF] Land–climate interactions

ÉL Davin - 2022 - boris.unibe.ch
Executive summary Land and climate interact in complex ways through changes in forcing
and multiple biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks across different spatial and …

Urban air pollution, urban heat island and human health: a review of the literature

A Piracha, MT Chaudhary - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many cities of the world suffer from air pollution because of poor planning and design and
heavy traffic in rapidly expanding urban environments. These conditions are exacerbated …

Satellite remote sensing of surface urban heat islands: Progress, challenges, and perspectives

D Zhou, J **ao, S Bonafoni, C Berger, K Deilami… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
The surface urban heat island (SUHI), which represents the difference of land surface
temperature (LST) in urban relativity to neighboring non-urban surfaces, is usually …

Surface warming in global cities is substantially more rapid than in rural background areas

Z Liu, W Zhan, B Bechtel, J Voogt, J Lai… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Warming trends in cities are influenced both by large-scale climate processes and by local-
scale urbanization. However, little is known about how surface warming trends of global …

Urban and air pollution: a multi-city study of long-term effects of urban landscape patterns on air quality trends

L Liang, P Gong - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Most air pollution research has focused on assessing the urban landscape effects of
pollutants in megacities, little is known about their associations in small-to mid-sized cities …