Review on the impact of urban geometry and pedestrian level greening on outdoor thermal comfort

E Jamei, P Rajagopalan, M Seyedmahmoudian… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
The number of hot days is increasing in many parts of the world because of the heat island
phenomenon and global climate change. High air temperature greatly affects human …

Urban heat island mitigation strategies: A state-of-the-art review on Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Hong Kong

A Aflaki, M Mirnezhad, A Ghaffarianhoseini… - Cities, 2017 - Elsevier
Observing the rapid urban expansions and numerous infrastructure developments in the
East-Asian context, many cities are suffering the urban heat island (UHI) effect and its …

Effects of urban form on the urban heat island effect based on spatial regression model

C Yin, M Yuan, Y Lu, Y Huang, Y Liu - Science of the Total Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
The urban heat island (UHI) effect is becoming more of a concern with the accelerated
process of urbanization. However, few studies have examined the effect of urban form on …

Analyzing the heat island magnitude and characteristics in one hundred Asian and Australian cities and regions

M Santamouris - Science of the Total Environment, 2015 - Elsevier
Urban heat island is the more documented phenomenon of climate change. Information on
the magnitude and the characteristics of the canopy layer urban heat island measured in …

A review on hydronic asphalt pavement for energy harvesting and snow melting

P Pan, S Wu, Y Xiao, G Liu - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Solar energy is undoubtedly the environment friendly and inexhaustible energy resource for
humans. The concept of hydronic asphalt pavement (HAP) is an emerging renewable …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal and spatial variability of urban heat island and thermal comfort within the Rotterdam agglomeration

LWA Van Hove, CMJ Jacobs, BG Heusinkveld… - Building and …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper reports on temporal and spatial variability of local climate and outdoor human
thermal comfort within the Rotterdam agglomeration. We analyse three years of …

A review on the generation, determination and mitigation of Urban Heat Island

AM Rizwan, LYC Dennis, LIU Chunho - Journal of environmental sciences, 2008 - Elsevier
Urban Heat Island (UHI) is considered as one of the major problems in the 21st century
posed to human beings as a result of urbanization and industrialization of human …

A review of multi-scale modelling, assessment, and improvement methods of the urban thermal and wind environment

S Du, X Zhang, X Jin, X Zhou, X Shi - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The urban thermal and wind environment (UTWE) has become a major concern in urban
planning design. Consideration of the UTWE involves steps of modelling, assessment, and …

Shading effect on long-term outdoor thermal comfort

TP Lin, A Matzarakis, RL Hwang - Building and environment, 2010 - Elsevier
Shading affects outdoor thermal environments and, therefore, influences the thermal
perceptions of people in outdoor spaces. Since most field studies examining outdoor …

The impact of urban compactness, comfort strategies and energy consumption on tropical urban heat island intensity: A review

R Giridharan, R Emmanuel - Sustainable cities and society, 2018 - Elsevier
The importance of studying tropical urban climate was recognised by the World
Meteorological Organisation (WMO) as early as in 1981 but substantial improvements were …