Mitigating urban heat islands has become an important objective for many cities
experiencing heat waves. Despite notable progress, the spatial relationship between land …

Climate change and urban development will exacerbate current urban heat island effects.
While most studies acknowledge the importance of projected temperature increases for …

Urban clusters are areas with high building and infrastructure concentration and limited
green and natural landscapes. Since buildings, bridges, roads, and other infrastructure …

The Urban Heat Island (UHI) is an area of growing interest for many people studying the
urban environment and local/global climate change. The UHI has been scientifically studied …

The background climatic conditions and urban morphology greatly influence urban heat
island effects (UHIs), but one-size-fits-all solutions are frequently employed to mitigate UHIs …

We have estimated the amplitude and impact of urbanization on Chittagong metropolitan
area (CMA), and investigated the correlation between land cover features and land surface …

Abstract Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon concerns the development of higher ambient
temperatures in urban districts compared to the surrounding rural areas. Several studies …

While temperature rises in urbanized area there is a growing concern among key decision-
makers and urban planners to actively incorporate Urban Heat Island (UHI)-related …

The ambition to develop sustainable and healthy cities requires city-specific policy and
practice founded on a multidisciplinary evidence base, including projections of human …

A central strand of research work in the realm of urban physics aims at a better
understanding of the variance in microclimatic conditions due to factors such as building …