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 …

Climate extremes and compound hazards in a warming world

A AghaKouchak, F Chiang, LS Huning… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Climate extremes threaten human health, economic stability, and the well-being of natural
and built environments (eg, 2003 European heat wave). As the world continues to warm …

The effectiveness of cool and green roofs in mitigating urban heat island and improving human thermal comfort

X Wang, H Li, S Sodoudi - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban residents suffer more from heat stress, compared to people living in rural areas, due
to the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Mitigation of UHI is thus essential to improving human …

Study of urban heat island effect in Hangzhou metropolitan area based on SW-TES algorithm and image dichotomous model

K Shang, L Xu, X Liu, Z Yin, Z Liu, X Li, L Yin… - Sage …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, with economic development, urbanization has been accelerating. In the past
100 years, the global average temperature has increased by 0.5° C, and according to the …

Progress, knowledge gap and future directions of urban heat mitigation and adaptation research through a bibliometric review of history and evolution

BJ He, W Wang, A Sharifi, X Liu - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a bibliometric review of the history and evolution of Urban Heat
Mitigation and Adaptation (UHMA) from 1989 to 2021 to identify its research progress …

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 …

Crowdsourced air temperatures contrast satellite measures of the urban heat island and its mechanisms

ZS Venter, T Chakraborty, X Lee - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
The ubiquitous nature of satellite data has led to an explosion of studies on the surface
urban heat island (SUHI). Relatively few have simultaneously used air temperature …

[HTML][HTML] Radiative sky cooling: Fundamental principles, materials, and applications

D Zhao, A Aili, Y Zhai, S Xu, G Tan, X Yin… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Radiative sky cooling cools an object on the earth by emitting thermal infrared radiation to
the cold universe through the atmospheric window (8–13 μm). It consumes no electricity and …

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 …

Scale-dependent interactions between tree canopy cover and impervious surfaces reduce daytime urban heat during summer

CD Ziter, EJ Pedersen, CJ Kucharik… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
As cities warm and the need for climate adaptation strategies increases, a more detailed
understanding of the cooling effects of land cover across a continuum of spatial scales will …