Mapping local climate zones and their applications in European urban environments: A systematic literature review and future development trends

M Lehnert, S Savić, D Milošević, J Dunjić… - … International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the light of climate change and burgeoning urbanization, heat loads in urban areas have
emerged as serious issues, affecting the well-being of the population and the environment …

[HTML][HTML] Hyperlocal mapping of urban air temperature using remote sensing and crowdsourced weather data

ZS Venter, O Brousse, I Esau, F Meier - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
The impacts of climate change such as extreme heat waves are exacerbated in cities where
most of the world's population live. Quantifying urbanization impacts on ambient air …

Remote sensing approach to simulate the land use/land cover and seasonal land surface temperature change using machine learning algorithms in a fastest-growing …

AA Kafy, RM Shuvo, MNH Naim, MS Sikdar… - Remote Sensing …, 2021 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization across many regions in the world is altering the existing land use/land
cover (LULC), which is significantly raising the land surface temperature (LST). The present …

Technological opportunities for sensing of the health effects of weather and climate change: a state-of-the-art-review

V Anderson, ACW Leung, H Mehdipoor… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Sensing and measuring meteorological and physiological parameters of humans, animals,
and plants are necessary to understand the complex interactions that occur between …

An investigation into heat storage by adopting local climate zones and nocturnal-diurnal urban heat island differences in the Tokyo Prefecture

C O'Malley, H Kikumoto - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
This study aims to identify urban forms that are prone to heat storage in the Tokyo Prefecture
in Japan. First, local climate zones (LCZ) were identified with 100 m pixel resolution using …

LCZ scheme for assessing Urban Heat Island intensity in a complex urban area (Beirut, Lebanon)

N Badaro-Saliba, J Adjizian-Gerard, R Zaarour… - Urban Climate, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermal remote sensing has become widely used to monitor and study Urban Heat Island
(UHI) by the use of satellite Land Surface Temperature (LST) data, and the Local Climate …

Land surface temperature and human thermal comfort responses to land use dynamics in Chittagong city of Bangladesh

HM Imran, A Hossain, MI Shammas… - … , Natural Hazards and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Intense urbanization alters the microclimate and ecology of cities by converting naturally
vegetated and permeable surfaces into impervious built-up surfaces. These artificial …

An urban energy balance-guided machine learning approach for synthetic nocturnal surface Urban Heat Island prediction: A heatwave event in Naples

A Oliveira, A Lopes, S Niza, A Soares - Science of the total environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Southern European functional urban areas (FUAs) are increasingly subject to heatwave
(HW) events, calling for anticipated climate adaptation measures. In the urban context, such …

Improvement of spatial interpolation accuracy of daily maximum air temperature in urban areas using a stacking ensemble technique

D Cho, C Yoo, J Im, Y Lee, J Lee - GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The reliable and robust monitoring of air temperature distribution is essential for urban
thermal environmental analysis. In this study, a stacking ensemble model consisting of multi …

Local climate zones in five southern European cities: An improved GIS-based classification method based on Copernicus data

A Oliveira, A Lopes, S Niza - Urban Climate, 2020 - Elsevier
While climate change projections for the Mediterranean region indicate an increased
exposure to heatwaves (HW), such prospects are particularly challenging in urban areas …