Green infrastructure as an urban heat island mitigation strategy—a review

F Balany, AWM Ng, N Muttil, S Muthukumaran… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Research on urban heat mitigation has been growing in recent years with many of the
studies focusing on green infrastructure (GI) as a strategy to mitigate the adverse effects of …

A review on the significance and perspective of the numerical simulations of outdoor thermal environment

CKC Lam, H Lee, SR Yang, S Park - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Computer simulation programs have been used since 2006 for analyzing outdoor human
thermal environments. This study reviewed 130 peer-reviewed papers published during …

Regulation of outdoor thermal comfort by trees in Hong Kong

L Kong, KKL Lau, C Yuan, Y Chen, Y Xu, C Ren… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Urbanization is transforming human society in many ways. Besides all the obvious benefits,
it also brings negative impacts such as the well-documented urban heat island (UHI) effect …

Impact of small-scale tree planting patterns on outdoor cooling and thermal comfort

B Abdi, A Hami, D Zarehaghi - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
The issues of local climate change, urban heat islands and improving outdoor thermal
comfort in cities demand special attention in urban planning. This paper examines the effect …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of seasonal mean radiant temperature simulations in hot arid urban climates

PJ Crank, A Middel, M Wagner, D Hoots… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
We validated seasonal RayMan and ENVI-met mean radiant temperature (T MRT)
simulations to assess model performance in a sensitivity analysis from cold to extremely hot …

[HTML][HTML] The extreme heat wave of July–August 2021 in the Athens urban area (Greece): Atmospheric and human-biometeorological analysis exploiting ultra-high …

C Giannaros, I Agathangelidis, G Papavasileiou… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Greece was affected by a prolonged and extreme heat wave (HW) event (July 28–August
05) during the abnormally hot summer of 2021, with the maximum temperature in Athens …

Outdoor thermal comfort under subarctic climate of north Sweden–A pilot study in Umeå

B Yang, T Olofsson, G Nair, A Kabanshi - Sustainable cities and society, 2017 - Elsevier
Outdoor microclimate is important to determine the quality of outdoor spaces. Swedish
people cherish summer period and prefer more outdoor activities in summer because of …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling mean radiant temperature in outdoor spaces, A comparative numerical simulation and validation study

CV Gál, N Kántor - Urban Climate, 2020 - Elsevier
The parameter governing outdoor human thermal comfort (HTC) on warm, clear-sky days is
radiation. Its effect on HTC is accounted for by mean radiant temperature (T mrt). While T mrt …

Evaluating the performance of ENVI-met model in diurnal cycles for different meteorological conditions

JA Acero, J Arrizabalaga - Theoretical and applied climatology, 2018 - Springer
Urban areas are known to modify meteorological variables producing important differences
in small spatial scales (ie microscale). These affect human thermal comfort conditions and …

Human-biometeorological significance of shading in urban public spaces—Summertime measurements in Pécs, Hungary

N Kántor, L Chen, CV Gál - Landscape and urban planning, 2018 - Elsevier
Shading is shown to be one of the most effective strategies to mitigate urban heat stress,
especially on a small scale. This paper presents an empirical study investigating the …