Urban evapotranspiration and its effects on water budget and energy balance: Review and perspectives

GY Qiu, C Yan, Y Liu - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban evapotranspiration (ET) is one of the most important components of water and energy
balance, and carbon cycle in urbans. It is also a natural process that is powerful enough to …

Systematic review of the efficacy of data-driven urban building energy models during extreme heat in cities: Current trends and future outlook

N Mondal, P Anand, A Khan, C Deb, D Cheong… - Building …, 2024 - Springer
Energy demand fluctuations due to low probability high impact (LPHI) micro-climatic events
such as urban heat island effect (UHI) and heatwaves, pose significant challenges for urban …

[HTML][HTML] City-wide, high-resolution mapping of evapotranspiration to guide climate-resilient planning

S Vulova, AD Rocha, F Meier, H Nouri, C Schulz… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The impacts of global change, including extreme heat and water scarcity, are threatening an
ever-growing urban world population. Evapotranspiration (ET) mitigates the urban heat …

Towards a combined Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 for 10-m land surface temperature products: The Google Earth Engine monthly Ten-ST-GEE system

Y Abunnasr, M Mhawej - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2022 - Elsevier
Efforts to combine satellite images from different sources are particularly needed in Land
Surface Temperature-based (LST) studies. This research proposes for the first time, to our …

Machine learning-assisted mapping of city-scale air temperature: Using sparse meteorological data for urban climate modeling and adaptation

X Ding, Y Zhao, Y Fan, Y Li, J Ge - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The availability of high spatio-temporal resolution of urban air temperature is paramount for
understanding urban heat island (UHI) and developing effective mitigation strategies, in …

Daily Ten-ST-GEE: An open access and fully automated 10-m LST downscaling system

M Mhawej, Y Abunnasr - Computers & Geosciences, 2022 - Elsevier
In remote sensing applications, data fusion is a combination of satellite images from different
sources, aimed to improve the spatial and/or temporal resolution of the final output. This …

Assessing the role of evapotranspiration in reducing surface temperatures in Harare using the SEBAL algorithm

TJ Danda, S Kusangaya, TD Mushore, N Mujere - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
Within urban areas, buildings, roads, and paved surfaces, absorb and re-emit the sun's heat
more than natural landscapes. Urban areas, where these structures are highly concentrated …

Impacts of urban morphology on sensible heat flux and net radiation exchange

J Yang, Z Wu, M Menenti, MS Wong, Y Xie, R Zhu… - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban morphology affects the sensible heat flux and net radiation exchange which can alter
urban heat mitigation plans. This study first parameterized the geometric effects on the net …

Spatial characteristics of urban evapotranspiration effects on the thermal environment

X Gan, Y Zhang, Z Wu, Y Wang, H Han… - Journal of Water and …, 2023 - iwaponline.com
Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important process of the regional hydrothermal cycle.
However, it is unclear how the mitigation of urban ET in urban thermal environments occurs …

Partitioning urban forest evapotranspiration based on integrating eddy covariance of water vapor and carbon dioxide fluxes

H Li, H Chen, JJ Huang - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Partitioning of evapotranspiration (ET) in urban forest lands plays a vital role in mitigating
ambient temperature and evaluating the effects of urbanization on the urban hydrological …