WRF-based scenario experiment research on urban heat island: A review

D Zhu, R Ooka - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
Urbanization leads to an increase in urban heat islands (UHIs), which is a cause for concern
because they endanger the ecological environment and human health. Scenario …

Spatial-temporal change of land surface temperature across 285 cities in China: An urban-rural contrast perspective

J Peng, J Ma, Q Liu, Y Liu, Y Li, Y Yue - Science of the Total Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
As an important theme in global climate change and urban sustainable development, the
changes of land surface temperature (LST) and surface urban heat island (SUHI) have been …

Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect in a highly populated urban agglomeration area in East China

D Zhou, S Bonafoni, L Zhang, R Wang - Science of the Total Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Increasingly urban agglomeration, representing a group of cities with a compact spatial
organization and close economic links, can rise surface temperature in a continuous area …

Urbanization-induced urban heat island and aerosol effects on climate extremes in the Yangtze River Delta region of China

S Zhong, Y Qian, C Zhao, R Leung… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
The WRF-Chem model coupled with a single-layer urban canopy model (UCM) is integrated
for 5 years at convection-permitting scale to investigate the individual and combined impacts …

Exploration of urbanization characteristics and their effect on the urban thermal environment in Chengdu, China

W Yu, J Shi, Y Fang, A Xiang, X Li, C Hu, M Ma - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
As rapid urbanization has drastically and widely altered the Earth's surface, urbanization has
become an important contributor to changes in land surface temperature (LST) and the …

Urban mitigation and building adaptation to minimize the future cooling energy needs

S Garshasbi, S Haddad, R Paolini, M Santamouris… - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In several areas of the world, the population concentrates along the coastal regions,
benefitting from the sea breeze, with warmer inland areas. However, increasing population …

Modeling the impacts of urbanization on summer thermal comfort: the role of urban land use and anthropogenic heat

B Yang, X Yang, LR Leung, S Zhong… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Urban land use and anthropogenic heat (AH) emission can considerably influence the
human thermal comfort during extreme heat events. In this study, a spatially heterogeneous …

Modeling of the anthropogenic heat flux and its effect on regional meteorology and air quality over the Yangtze River Delta region, China

M Xie, J Liao, T Wang, K Zhu, B Zhuang… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Anthropogenic heat (AH) emissions from human activities caused by urbanization can affect
the city environment. Based on the energy consumption and the gridded demographic data …

Flow patterns and heat transfer of an idealized square city in non-uniform heat flux and different background wind conditions

X Teng, Y Zhang, Y Fan, J Ge - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
The city scale buoyancy-driven flow is crucial for the wind and thermal environment in urban
areas, exerting a significant impact on the city ventilation, pollutants dispersion and heat …

[HTML][HTML] Review on the Application of Remote Sensing Data and Machine Learning to the Estimation of Anthropogenic Heat Emissions

L Feng, D Ma, M Xie, M Xi - Remote Sensing, 2025 - mdpi.com
Anthropogenic heat is the heat generated by human activities such as industry, construction,
transport, and metabolism. Accurate estimates of anthropogenic heat are essential for …