Environmental mobile monitoring of urban microclimates: A review

I Kousis, M Manni, AL Pisello - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Monitoring efficiently urban microclimates is necessary for rendering cities resilient against
climate change impacts. Aiming to retrieve data of high spatial resolution, mobile monitoring …

Demand, services and social aspects of mitigation

F Creutzig, J Roy, P Devine-Wright, J Díaz-José… - 2022 - espace.curtin.edu.au
Assessment of the social science literature and regional case studies reveals how social
norms, culture, and individual choices, interact with infrastructure and other structural …

[HTML][HTML] Establishing intensifying chronic exposure to extreme heat as a slow onset event with implications for health, wellbeing, productivity, society and economy

E Oppermann, T Kjellstrom, B Lemke, M Otto… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Gradual, average increases in temperature are significant for the risk of heat
stress.•Increasing chronic exposure to extreme heat constitutes a slow onset event.•Heat …

Towards human-centric digital twins: leveraging computer vision and graph models to predict outdoor comfort

P Liu, T Zhao, J Luo, B Lei, M Frei, C Miller… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Conventional sidewalk studies focused on quantitative analysis of sidewalk walkability at a
large scale which cannot capture the dynamic interactions between the environment and …

[图书][B] A history of Bangladesh

W Van Schendel - 2020 - books.google.com
" This is a book about the amazing twists and turns that have produced contemporary
Bangladeshi society. It is intended for general readers and for students who are beginning to …

Spatiotemporal assessment of extreme heat risk for high-density cities: A case study of Hong Kong from 2006 to 2016

J Hua, X Zhang, C Ren, Y Shi, TC Lee - Sustainable cities and society, 2021 - Elsevier
High-density cities are faced with growing extreme hot weather driven by climate change
and local urbanization, but localized heat risk detection is still at an early stage for most …

Intra-urban microclimate investigation in urban heat island through a novel mobile monitoring system

I Kousis, I Pigliautile, AL Pisello - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Monitoring microclimate variables within cities with high accuracy is an ongoing challenge
for a better urban resilience to climate change. Assessing the intra-urban characteristics of a …

Improving the suitability of selected thermal indices for predicting outdoor thermal sensation in Tehran

M Haghshenas, M Hadianpour, A Matzarakis… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Most of thermal indices were developed based on the European/North American subjects
and climates, while they should be investigated in other regions as well. This study aims to …

Explicit calculations of wet‐bulb globe temperature compared with approximations and why it matters for labor productivity

Q Kong, M Huber - Earth's Future, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wet‐bulb globe temperature (WBGT) is a widely applied heat stress index. However, most
applications of WBGT within the heat stress impact literature that do not use WBGT at all, but …

[HTML][HTML] Spatio-temporal development of the urban heat island in a socioeconomically diverse tropical city

EE Ramsay, GA Duffy, K Burge, RR Taruc… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban heat islands, where temperatures are elevated relative to non-urban surrounds, are
near-ubiquitous in cities globally. Yet, the magnitude and form of urban heat islands in the …