Context sensitivity of surface urban heat island at the local and regional scales

Y Li, B Zhou, M Glockmann, JP Kropp… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study we analysed the multi-annual (2002–2011) average summer surface urban
heat island (SUHI) intensity of the 5000 largest urban clusters in Europe. We investigated its …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into heat islands at the regional scale using a data-driven approach

N Colaninno - City and Environment Interactions, 2023 - Elsevier
… the regional level still needs to be improved. This study delves into the intricate dynamics of
the regional heat island (… the dynamics of the heat island phenomenon at the regional scale. …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring urban forms vulnerable to urban heat islands: a multiscale analysis

S Kang, D Lee, J Park, J Jung - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
… the relationship between the urban heat island effect and urban … heat islands. This study also
conducted an analysis on two … on horizontal scales (micro-, local, and regional scales) have …

Effect of pavement thermal properties on mitigating urban heat islands: A multi-scale modeling case study in Phoenix

J Yang, ZH Wang, KE Kaloush, H Dylla - Building and Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
… At a regional scale, various pavement types were also found to have a limited cooling effect
on land surface temperature and 2-m air temperature for metropolitan Phoenix. In the context …

A modeling study of the sensitivity of urban heat islands to precipitation at climate scales

Y Gu, D Li - Urban Climate, 2018 - Elsevier
… However, the influence of local climate on the urban heat island intensity remains elusive. …
the urban heat island intensity over the Continental United States (CONUS) at climate scales. …

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

D Zhou, J Xiao, S Bonafoni, C Berger, K Deilami… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
… The surface urban heat island (SUHI), which represents the difference of land surface …
studies that form the major body of the urban heat island (UHI) literature. This paper provides a …

Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population

G Manoli, S Fatichi, M Schläpfer, K Yu, TW Crowther… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
… such fine-scale processes, and detailed numerical simulations remain essential to describe
the complexity and heterogeneity of real cities from the building to the regional scale 40,41 . …

An approach to characterizing the spatial pattern and scale of regional heat islands over urban agglomerations

ZQ Xie, Y Du, Q Miao, LL Zhang… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… agglomerations can create regional urban heat islands and threaten environmental … a
regional scale. Accurately quantifying the spatiotemporal variations of regional urban heat islands

The structure of heat islands

M Garstang, PD Tyson, GD Emmitt - Reviews of Geophysics, 1975 - Wiley Online Library
… On a smaller scale, heat islands within heat islands form readily over localized heat sources
in cities. Such is frequently the case over shopping centers. Landsberg [1970] has shown …

A simplified urban-extent algorithm to characterize surface urban heat islands on a global scale and examine vegetation control on their spatiotemporal variability

T Chakraborty, X Lee - International Journal of Applied Earth Observation …, 2019 - Elsevier
… Given the large number of data points, this does not cause widespread biases at the global
or regional scale. Since we do not use explicit buffers around the urban areas, the rural …