Rapid urbanization and climate change significantly contribute to worsening urban human thermal comfort: A national 183-city, 26-year study in China

Z Ren, Y Fu, Y Dong, P Zhang, X He - Urban Climate, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban residents are gradually being exposed to increasing urban high temperatures and
extreme heatwave events under rapid urbanization and global warming. Although there is …

[HTML][HTML] The relationship between urban heat island and air pollutants and them with influencing factors in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Y Wang, Z Guo, J Han - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
The relationship between urban heat island (UHI) and air pollution is worth exploring. We
used land surface temperature (LST) and air quality data investigated the spatio-temporal …

Understanding the linkage between urban growth and land surface temperature—a case study of Bangalore City, India

S Kanga, G Meraj, BA Johnson, SK Singh, MN PV… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Planning for a sustainable future involves understanding the past and present problems
associated with urban centers. Rapid urbanization has caused significant adverse impacts …

How can urban parks be planned to maximize cooling effect in hot extremes? Linking maximum and accumulative perspectives

C Du, W Jia, M Chen, L Yan, K Wang - Journal of environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
How to maximize the cooling effect of urban parks in hot extremes has been closely linked to
well-beings of citizens. Few studies have quantified urban parks' cooling effect in hot …

Regional and urban heat island studies in megacities: A systematic analysis of research methodology

MA Degefu, M Argaw, GL Feyisa… - Indoor and Built …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The paper provides a systematic review of satellite-based regional and urban heat island
(RHI and UHI) studies in cities and their challenges, from 2010 to the present based on …

Projection of urban land surface temperature: An inter-and intra-annual modeling approach

Y Chen, M Amani-Beni, C Chen, Y Liang, J Li, L Yang - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
An easily applied and efficiently exploited approach was proposed for the prediction of inter-
and intra-annual land surface temperature (LST) in a city's central zone. Chengdu is chosen …

How do driving factors affect the diurnal variation of land surface temperature across different urban functional blocks? A case study of Xi'an, China

K Zhao, Z Ning, C Xu, X Zhao, X Huang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
A comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the formation mechanisms of the urban
thermal environment is the basis for thermal environment regulation, however, there is …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in land surface temperature and its drivers over the High Mountain Asia

S Rani, S Mal - The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space …, 2022 - Elsevier
The present study estimates spatial and temporal (seasonal/annual) trends in daytime land
surface temperature (LST) and its drivers (elevation, cloud fraction (CF), atmospheric water …

Thermal and ecological assessment based on land surface temperature and quantifying multivariate controlling factors in Bogura, Bangladesh

FA Abir, S Ahmmed, SH Sarker, AU Fahim - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
In recent years, the world has shown considerable concerns about environmental
degradation accompanied by urban expansion. In terms of size, Bogura is equivalent to …

Spatiotemporal patterns of the application of surface urban heat island intensity calculation methods

J Zhang, L Tu, B Shi - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
Using the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Web of Science (WoS)
databases, 487 articles that used remote sensing methods to study the intensity of surface …