A cooled city? Comparing human activity changes on the impact of urban thermal environment before and after city-wide lockdown

Z Cai, Y Tang, Q Zhan - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in early 2020 reduced human outdoor activities and
changed the spatial-temporal distribution of the population. To find its changes on the impact …

Weakened Sea‐Land Breeze in a Coastal Megacity Driven by Urbanization and Ocean Warming

Y Xiao, J Yang, L Cui, J Deng, P Fu, J Zhu - Earth's Future, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The sea‐land breeze (SLB) occurs regularly in coastal areas and influences the local
climate and atmospheric environment. Fifteen‐year observations (2005–2019) from urban …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic heating of the urban environment: An investigation of feedback dynamics between urban micro-climate and decomposed anthropogenic …

P Vahmani, X Luo, A Jones, T Hong - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Cities consume 2/3 of global energy and consequently release a large amount of
anthropogenic heat into urban environments, which are already vulnerable to extreme heat …

Mechanisms of non-stationary influence of urban form on the diurnal thermal environment based on machine learning and MGWR analysis

J Zhao, F Guo, H Zhang, J Dong - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
The non-stationary impact of urban form at block scale on the diurnal thermal environment
has not been extensively studied. To fill the gap, a comprehensive multi-scale research …

[HTML][HTML] Synergies between urban heat island and urban heat wave effects in 9 global mega-regions from 2003 to 2020

C Wei, W Chen, Y Lu, T Blaschke, J Peng, D Xue - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Global urbanization significantly impacts the thermal environment in urban areas, yet urban
heat island (UHI) and urban heat wave (UHW) studies at the mega-region scale have been …

[HTML][HTML] Implementing sustainability into virtual simulation games in business higher education

A Gawel, S Strykowski, K Madias - Education Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The paper aims to determine how sustainability can be implemented into virtual business
simulators dedicated to higher education due to the need for raising environmental …

Appraising regional anthropogenic heat flux using high spatial resolution NTL and POI data: A case study in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China

Y Wang, D Hu, C Yu, Y Di, S Wang, M Liu - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization and the aggregation of human activities in cities have resulted in large
amounts of anthropogenic heat (AH) emission, which affects urban climate. Quantifying and …

Quantifying the relationship between land use features and intra-surface urban heat island effect: Study on downtown Shanghai

H Zhang, TT Li, JJ Han - Applied Geography, 2020 - Elsevier
Fine-resolution products of land use features (LUFs) and the thermally sharpened infrared
data are vital to reveal the land use patterns and their influence on the spatial variability of …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal and spatial variation of anthropogenic heat in the central urban area: a case study of Guangzhou, China

T Peng, C Sun, S Feng, Y Zhang, F Fan - ISPRS International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The urban heat island effect caused by the rapid increase in urban anthropogenic heat has
gradually become an important factor affecting the living environment of urban residents …

[HTML][HTML] Progress of evapotranspiration research based on VOSviewer: A review

Z Yang, T Qin, H Wang - Water Science & Technology, 2024 - iwaponline.com
Evapotranspiration (ET) is a key link between atmospheric processes and land surface
hydrological processes. With the impact of global warming and human activities, research …