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 …

Urban heat island (UHI) variations within a city boundary: A systematic literature review

SW Kim, RD Brown - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Urban heat islands (UHI) in a city tend to vary with changes in time and space. To effectively
cope with the accelerating intensity of UHI due to global warming and the resulting damage …

Increased heat risk in wet climate induced by urban humid heat

K Zhang, C Cao, H Chu, L Zhao, J Zhao, X Lee - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Cities are generally warmer than their adjacent rural land, a phenomenon known as the
urban heat island (UHI). Often accompanying the UHI effect is another phenomenon called …

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 …

WUDAPT: An urban weather, climate, and environmental modeling infrastructure for the anthropocene

J Ching, G Mills, B Bechtel, L See… - Bulletin of the …, 2018‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) is an international
community-based initiative to acquire and disseminate climate relevant data on the physical …

Urban heat island mitigation strategies: A state-of-the-art review on Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Hong Kong

A Aflaki, M Mirnezhad, A Ghaffarianhoseini… - Cities, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Observing the rapid urban expansions and numerous infrastructure developments in the
East-Asian context, many cities are suffering the urban heat island (UHI) effect and its …

Local climate zones for urban temperature studies

ID Stewart, TR Oke - Bulletin of the American Meteorological …, 2012‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
The effect of urban development on local thermal climate is widely documented in scientific
literature. Observations of urban–rural air temperature differences—or urban heat islands …

Spatial and temporal variability of rainfall and their effects on hydrological response in urban areas–a review

E Cristiano, MC ten Veldhuis… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2017‏ - hess.copernicus.org
In urban areas, hydrological processes are characterized by high variability in space and
time, making them sensitive to small-scale temporal and spatial rainfall variability. In the last …

Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data–Current status of production and evaluation

B Bechtel, PJ Alexander, C Beck, J Böhner, O Brousse… - Urban climate, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) project has grown
out of the need for better information on the form and function of cities globally. Cities are …

Evaluation of the'local climate zone'scheme using temperature observations and model simulations.

ID Stewart, TR Oke… - International journal of …, 2014‏ - search.ebscohost.com
Abstract'Local climate zones'(LCZs) comprise a new and systematic classification of field
sites for heat island studies. The classification divides urban and rural landscapes into 17 …