Isothermal and non-isothermal flow in street canyons: A review from theoretical, experimental and numerical perspectives

Y Zhao, LW Chew, A Kubilay, J Carmeliet - Building and Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Urban street canyon flows play a central role in microclimate control, from street canyon to
neighbourhood and city scale, which affect pollutant dispersion, thermal comfort of residents …

Contrasting responses of urban and rural surface energy budgets to heat waves explain synergies between urban heat islands and heat waves

D Li, T Sun, M Liu, L Yang, L Wang… - Environmental Research …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Heat waves (HWs) are projected to become more frequent and last longer over most land
areas in the late 21st century, which raises serious public health concerns. Urban residents …

Surface anthropogenic heat islands in six megacities: An assessment based on a triple-source surface energy balance model

MK Firozjaei, Q Weng, C Zhao, M Kiavarz, L Lu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic heat flux (AHF) is a main contributor to the formation of surface urban heat
islands (SUHI). Megacities in particular are facing severe problems due to excessive …

Summer urban heat island mitigation strategy development for high-anthropogenic-heat-emission blocks

Y Chen, Y Wang, D Zhou, Z Gu, X Meng - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
The negative impacts of urban heat island (UHI) have attracted more and more academic
attention. Currently, few studies have considered the effects of anthropogenic heat emission …

Urbanization-induced increases in heavy precipitation are magnified by moist heatwaves in an urban agglomeration of East China

C Li, X Gu, LJ Slater, J Liu, J Li, X Zhang… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Heavy precipitation (HP) events can be preceded by moist heatwaves (HWs; ie, hot and
humid weather), and both can be intensified by urbanization. However, the effect of moist …

A distributed model for quantifying temporal-spatial patterns of anthropogenic heat based on energy consumption

R Sun, Y Wang, L Chen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
Although energy-induced anthropogenic heat emissions form localized hotspots, they can
influence the variability of urban climate. A lack of anthropogenic heat quantification in …

Characterizing spatiotemporal dynamics of anthropogenic heat fluxes: A 20-year case study in Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region in China

S Chen, D Hu, MS Wong, H Ren, S Cao, C Yu… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization, which is closely related to economic growth, human health, and micro-
climate, has resulted in a considerable amount of anthropogenic heat emissions. The lack of …

Parametrisation of the variety of human behaviour related to building energy consumption in the Town Energy Balance (SURFEX-TEB v. 8.2)

R Schoetter, V Masson, A Bourgeois… - Geoscientific Model …, 2017 - gmd.copernicus.org
The anthropogenic heat flux can be an important part of the urban surface energy balance.
Some of it is due to energy consumption inside buildings, which depends on building use …

Exploring the effect of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on urban cooling: A tale of three cities

N Mijani, MK Firozjaei, M Mijani… - Advances in Space …, 2023 - Elsevier
COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on our society, environment and public health,
in both positive and negative ways. The main aim of this study is to monitor the effect of …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic heat from buildings in Los Angeles County: A simulation framework and assessment

Y Xu, P Vahmani, A Jones, T Hong - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Anthropogenic heat (AH), ie, waste heat from buildings to the ambient environment,
increases urban air temperature and contributes to the urban heat island effect, which leads …