Co-occurrence of urban heat and the COVID-19: Impacts, drivers, methods, and implications for the post-pandemic era

W Wang, BJ He - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Cities, the main place of human settlements, are under various mega challenges such as
climate change, population increase, economic growth, urbanization, and pandemic …

Spatial analysis of the impacts of the urban form on the energy consumption of Karaj over the Covid-19 era (2019-2022)

K Shakarami, MR Rahnama - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Sustainable urban development as part of every nation's development policies tries to
achieve a balanced physical, social, environmental, and economic development of cities …

Exploring the influence of local urban heat features on park cooling effects: Insights from Chinese cities

Y Zhou, Y Luo, X Yi, F Lun, Q Hu, N Huang… - Building and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Urban parks are vital for mitigating urban heat, yet debate persists on whether local urban
heat features hinder or enhance park cooling effects. Therefore. We employed Google Earth …

Spatio-temporal variation of the relationship between air pollutants and land surface temperature in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China

Y Jiang, W Lin, D Xu, D Xu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
The urban heat island effect and air pollution have become widespread environmental
problems in urban areas. We investigated the spatial-temporal distributions of the daytime …

Changes in air pollution, land surface temperature, and urban heat islands during the COVID-19 lockdown in three Chinese urban agglomerations

Z Feng, X Wang, J Yuan, Y Zhang, M Yu - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
COVID-19 has notably impacted the world economy and human activities. However, the
strict urban lockdown policies implemented in various countries appear to have positively …

Prediction and evaluation of spatial distributions of ozone and urban heat island using a machine learning modified land use regression method

L Han, J Zhao, Y Gao, Z Gu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In summer, Ozone (O 3) pollution and urban heat island (UHI) pose serious health
risks to humans. To obtain the spatial distributions of ozone and urban heat island in Xi'an in …

Investigating and mapping day-night urban heat island and its driving factors using Sentinel/MODIS data and Google Earth Engine. Case study: greater Cairo, Egypt

RM Abou Samra - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban heat islands (UHI) represent one of the substantial human-induced challenges
endangering urban livelihoods. UHI and climate change have significant interactions …

Urban heat island and thermal comfort of Esfahan City (Iran) during COVID-19 lockdown

G Roshan, R Sarli, JM Fitchett - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Urban Heat Island (UHI), driven in part by urban green space transformation,
and resulting in bioclimatic stress, is one of the major environmental problems facing cities …

Recent trends of land surface temperature in relation to the influencing factors using Google Earth Engine platform and time series products in megacities of India

D Bera, ND Chatterjee, S Ghosh, S Dinda… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing land surface temperature (LST) is one of the significant anthropogenic issues that
is threatening livelihoods in urban areas. Understanding the urban LST is essential for …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on air quality, surface Urban Heat Island, air temperature and lighting energy consumption in City of …

E Jamei, Y Jamei, M Seyedmahmoudian, B Horan… - Energy Strategy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened city economies and residents' public health and
quality of life. Similar to most cities, Melbourne imposed extreme preventive lockdown …