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 …

Category 4 landfalling hurricane Harvey poured more than a metre of rainfall across the
heavily populated Houston area, leading to unprecedented flooding and damage. Although …

The effects of urban heat islands (UHIs) have a substantial bearing on the sustainability of
cities and environs. This paper examines the efficacy of green and cool roofs as potential …

This study examined the impact of cool roofs, green roofs, and solar panel roofs on near-
surface temperature and cooling energy demand through regional modeling in the Chicago …

More than half of the humanity lives in cities and many cities are growing in size at a
phenomenal rate. Urbanisation-driven landuse change influences the local …

Numerical simulations were carried out with the weather research and forecasting model to
study the influence of different land-use datasets for two Austrian regions, the high-alpine …

Urban areas have different climatology with respect to their rural surroundings. Though
urbanization is a worldwide phenomenon, it is especially prevalent in India, where urban …

Urban heat islands (UHIs) are mainly caused by mismanaged urban development. Urban
ventilation corridors (UVCs) can effectively reduce UHIs. Hangzhou, a large, dense city in …

This study explores the sensitivity of high-resolution mesoscale simulations of urban heat
island (UHI) in the Chicago metropolitan area (CMA) and its environs to urban physical …

High-resolution numerical simulations of the urban heat island (UHI) effect with the widely-
used Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model are assessed. Both the sensitivity of …