Assessing the effects of different urban landscapes and built environment patterns on thermal comfort and air pollution in Erzurum city, Turkey

S Yilmaz, MA Irmak, A Qaid - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban environmental issues have a negative impact on urban quality of life in cities.
Erzurum city is a very special place in the world because it has a very high altitude, harsh …

Modeling the relationship between the geometric characteristics of urban green spaces and thermal comfort: The case of Adana city

MU Cilek, C Uslu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, developing heat stress mitigation strategies in urban areas with the help of
climate software has become a top priority in climatic studies to eliminate standardisation …

Spatial-temporal pattern changes of UTCI in the China-Pakistan economic corridor in recent 40 years

D Zeng, J Wu, Y Mu, M Deng, Y Wei, W Sun - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper investigated the spatial and temporal variations of the Universal Thermal Climate
Index (UTCI) of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) from 1979 to 2018. The …

Determination of ecologically sensitive areas in Denizli province using geographic information systems (GIS) and analytical hierarchy process (AHP)

FC Yilmaz, M Zengin, C Tekin Cure - Environmental Monitoring and …, 2020 - Springer
Ecological sensitivity is defined as the ecosystem's reaction to environmental change
caused by internal and external factors. The degree of ecological sensitivity varies in spatial …

The influence of spatiotemporal radial road on the outdoor thermal environment

Y Su, Y Wang, C Wang, Q Zhao, Y He, D Zhou, N Zhou - Urban Climate, 2022 - Elsevier
The urban planning of squares with open space and the radioactive road is often seen in
many cities. It forms a particular type of landscape and affects the traffic system and urban …

Effect of different pavements on human thermal comfort conditions

MA Irmak, S Yilmaz, D Dursun - Atmósfera, 2017 - scielo.org.mx
The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon and outdoor human thermal comfort may be
affected by several factors such as the size of the built environment, the rate of open and …

Approaching environmental human thermophysiological thresholds for the case of Ankara, Turkey

A Santos Nouri, Y Afacan, O Çalışkan, TP Lin… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
The disclosed study undertook a 'human centred-approach'that ascertained and categorised
environmental human thermophysiological risk factors by relating them to the human …

Analysis of outdoor thermal comfort and air pollution under the ınfluence of urban morphology in cold-climate cities: Erzurum/Turkey

S Yilmaz, I Sezen, MA Irmak, EA Külekçi - Environmental Science and …, 2021 - Springer
The increase in population in urban areas has increased the demand for housing. In cities
that could not adapt to the population increase, the attempt to fit more houses in a unit area …

The thermal comfort problem in public space during the climate change era based on the case study of selected area in Lublin city in Poland

N Przesmycka, B Kwiatkowski, M Kozak - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Noticeable climate change in recent years is reducing the comfort of public spaces in the
urban environment, and is becoming an element of urban policies. The adaptation to climate …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in thermal comfortable condition in the Qinghai‒Tibet Plateau from 1979 to 2020

LY Zhou, J Schmude, PM Zhai, Q Wang - Advances in Climate Change …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Qinghai‒Tibet Plateau (QTP) is one of the most sensitive regions to climate change
in the world. As a result, people in the QTP are more likely to be sensitively affected by …