Stefania Bonafoni

TL;DR: An exponentially increasing trend of SUHI research since 2005, with clear preferences for geographic areas, time of day, seasons, research foci, and platforms/sensors is found, and key potential directions and opportunities for future efforts are proposed.

TL;DR: All LST retrieval methods provided satisfying results, with MWA having a slightly better accuracy with a Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) equals to 2.39 K and a lower bias error, while RTE and SCA presented similar results regardless of the season, while MWA differed from RTEand SCA for all seasons, especially in summer.

TL;DR: It is shown that ignoring urban agglomeration effect (using suburban/rural areas as the unaffected references) would lead to large biases of SUHII estimates in terms of magnitude and spatial distribution, and the necessity of considering cities altogether when assessing the urbanization effects on climate in an urban aggLomeration area is emphasized.

TL;DR: In this paper, the analysis of the surface and air heat island in Milan, Italy, by means of satellite maps is proposed, using data provided by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board of both Terra and Aqua satellites.

TL;DR: Analysis of the Canopy Layer Heat Island (CLHI) of Rome during summer months reveals a mean growth in magnitude of 3–4 K during nighttime and a negative or almost zero CLHI intensity during daytime, confirmed by the weather stations.