Studies on urban heat island (UHI) have been more than a century after the phenomenon
was first discovered in the early 1800s. UHI emerges as the source of many urban …

Urban heat island (UHI) manifests as the temperature rise in built-up urban areas relative to
the surrounding rural countryside, largely because of the relatively greater proportion of …

Although the urban heat island (UHI) phenomena phenomenon has was been documented
over a century ago, the effect of the urban heat island on urban climate and environment …

Climate comfort based caused by geographical conditions has influenced human activities,
living standards, and even settlement forms from the early ages and continuous to so in our …

The impacts of climate change such as extreme heat waves are exacerbated in cities where
most of the world's population live. Quantifying urbanization impacts on ambient air …

Urban heat island (UHI) has been evidenced as a phenomenon having a series of negative
consequences in energy use, human thermal comfort, citizens' health, wellbeing and air …

This paper reports on temporal and spatial variability of local climate and outdoor human
thermal comfort within the Rotterdam agglomeration. We analyse three years of …

Urbanisation may have been shown to have no effect on climate change, but some
researchers suggest that cities are fully capable of responding to it. Urban Heat Islands …

The urban heat island effect (UHI) is frequently observed in cities, and is associated with
environmental effects. Urban green space (UGS) has been shown to play an important role …

This paper presents the results of a computational study on the energy consumption and
related CO2 emissions for heating and cooling of an office building within the Urban Heat …