Green roofs are a recurrent solution for improving environmental quality in buildings. Such systems can, among other things, reduce the urban heat island effect, improve indoor thermal comfort and visual quality, energy consumption buildings, therefore promoting human comfort. This work presents winter monitoring of light-weight green roof assembly with potential to be implemented extensive are...

Urban Heat Island (UHI) intensities are analyzed for the metropolitan areas of two major Portuguese cities, Lisbon and Porto, in period 2008–2017. Projections UHI intensity averaged over 2008–2017 a future 2021–2050 calculated under Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5. The spatiotemporal characteristics assessed daytime, nighttime, average daily conditions. This analysis is carried o...

With global warming forecast to continue into the foreseeable future, heat waves are very likely to increase in both frequency and intensity. In urban regions, these future heat waves will be exacerbated by the urban heat island effect, and will have the potential to negatively influence the health and welfare of urban residents. In order to investigate the health effects of the urban heat isla...

Urban parks have been proven to cool the surrounding environment, and can thus mitigate urban heat island an extent by forming a park cooling island. However, comprehensive understanding of mechanism islands is still required. Therefore, we studied 32 in Jinan, China proposed absolute relative indicators depict detailed features High-spatial-resolution GF-2 images were used obtain land cover pa...

As a promising application, quantitative remote sensing of urban heat island (UHI) could facilitate our understanding of urban/suburban environment and its relationship with urbanization. This paper investigates the urban heat island effect of Lanzhou, China, a densely built up city in a valley, based on Landsat ETM+ image acquired on April 22, 2000, whose spatial resolution is sufficient for m...

Heat stress is one of the most severe climate threats to human society in a future warmer world. The situation is further exacerbated in urban areas by urban heat islands (UHIs). Because the majority of world’s population is projected to live in cities, there is a pressing need to find effective solutions for the heat stress problem. We use a climate model to investigate the effectiveness of va...

Despite the fact, that against background of global warming Russian Arctic is still a region with severe winters and cool summers; likelihood thermal stress conditions in summer also increasing. At same time, urban can significantly affect human heat perception due to appearance island effect other factors. Using example city Nadym (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug), authors have assessed possibi...

Abstract Urban land utilization for urban facilities construction continues to grow and impact the heat island making city uncomfortable. Green open space (GOS) is a within with its function in ecological, social, economic, architectural functions. The purpose of research was determine characteristics GOS effect teak plantation growth on air temperature oxygen (O 2 ) levels. conducted from May ...

In this letter, the urban heat island effects on the temperature time series of Uccle (Brussels, Belgium) during the summers months 1960–1999 was estimated using both ground-based weather stations and remote sensing imagery, combined with a numerical land surface scheme including state-of-the-art urban parameterization, the Town Energy Balance Scheme. Analysis of urban warming based on remote s...