Map** local climate zones for cities: A large review

F Huang, S Jiang, W Zhan, B Bechtel, Z Liu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The local climate zone (LCZ) system provides a universal classification mechanism for
urban and natural landscapes and plays an increasingly important role in urban climate …

A systematic review of GIS-based local climate zone map** studies

SJ Quan, P Bansal - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The local climate zone (LCZ) framework has been widely applied to generate LCZ maps for
understanding urban thermal environments. LCZ map** has two research streams. The …

LCZ Generator: a web application to create Local Climate Zone maps

M Demuzere, J Kittner, B Bechtel - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Since their introduction in 2012, Local Climate Zones (LCZs) emerged as a new standard for
characterizing urban landscapes, providing a holistic classification approach that takes into …

Optimizing local climate zones to mitigate urban heat island effect in human settlements

J Yang, Y Wang, C ** local climate zones and its applications at the global scale: A systematic review of the last decade of progress and trend
R Wang, M Wang, C Ren, G Chen, G Mills, J Ching - Urban Climate, 2024 - Elsevier
The concept of local climate zone (LCZ) was proposed in 2012 to meet the needs of
refinement and standardization of urban climate research. As an important contribution of …

Relationships between building characteristics, urban form and building energy use in different local climate zone contexts: An empirical study in Seoul

P Bansal, SJ Quan - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
The influence of building context on the relationship between building and its energy use
has been attracting attention. However, most studies simply defined building contextual …

Assessment of local climate zone classification maps of cities in China and feasible refinements

C Ren, M Cai, X Li, L Zhang, R Wang, Y Xu, E Ng - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Local climate zone (LCZ) maps that describe the urban surface structure and cover with
consistency and comparability across cities are gaining applications in studies of urban heat …

Climatic performance of urban textures: Analysis tools for a Mediterranean urban context

A Salvati, P Monti, HC Roura, C Cecere - Energy and Buildings, 2019 - Elsevier
Urban heat island effect is almost always neglected in building energy simulations, due to
difficulties in obtaining site-specific climate data with a district-scale resolution. This study …