Critical Evaluation of the Spatiotemporal Behavior of UHI, through Correlation Analyses based on Multi-City Heterogeneous Dataset

M Singh, R Sharston, T Murtha - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
This study utilizes year-round temperature data observed in 15 cities around the United
States (US) to investigate the relationships between UHI and urban design attributes, and …

A Simulation-Based Study on the Impact of Parametric Design on Outdoor Thermal Comfort and Urban Overheating

CY Wai, MAUR Tariq, HW Chau, N Muttil, E Jamei - Land, 2024 - mdpi.com
Under the current energy crisis and climate change, sustainable urban planning and
building design are a priority to achieve a net-zero future, as energy use in buildings for …

Some like it hot: How urban microclimate across a tropical city impacts the capacity of Aedes mosquitoes to transmit flaviviruses

EH Acosta - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Across the world, humans suffer hundreds of thousands of cases of arthropod-borne virus
(arbovirus) diseases every year. Interfaces of urban/peri-urban environments with forest …

Investigating the Impacts of Biochar Addition to Substrate on Mitigating Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Green Roofs

G Zhang, B Tang, H Bian, Y Huang, H Jin… - … conference on Climate …, 2022 - Springer
The utilization of biochar is often heralded as a salient approach to curtailing emissions and
sequestering carbon. Agricultural and forestry soils have demonstrated its efficaciousness in …