An urban heat island (UHI) is a serious phenomenon associated with built environments and
presents threats to human health. It is projected that UHI intensity will rise to record levels in …

The peri‑urban area possesses mixed characteristics of rural and urban areas, ie,
agricultural, and built-up land. This review explains various themes and concepts of peri …

Land use and land cover (LULC) change has been shown to have significant effect on
climate through various pathways that modulate land surface temperature and rainfall …

Developing/developed cities have resulted in massive anthropogenic modifications of the
environment through replacement of natural land cover with concrete, bricks, asphalt and …

Industrial and economic development along with the rapid growth in urban population over
the global cities is generating a warmer inner core in comparison to the surrounding natural …

Urbanization produces substantial land use changes by causing the construction of different
urban infrastructures in the city region for habitation, transportation, industry, and other …

The COVID-19 pandemic forced a nationwide lockdown in India for months when close to
1.3 billion people were confined to their homes. An abrupt halt in the majority of the urban …

Most of the urban heat island (UHI) studies are carried out in densely populated cities but
core industrial areas are also potential sites of heat island effect despite having a …

Aerosol health impacts are gaining considerable attention from the scientific community. Our
study's primary purpose was to identify the source regions of PM 10 and quantify its long …

Local climatic zones (LCZs) is a comprehensive and micro level land use classification
system originally developed to quantify the relation between urban heat island (UHI) and …