Tirthankar Chakraborty

TL;DR: This study estimates that the SUHI intensity is enhanced by around 12% at clear night by the increased absorbed radiation in the urban areas using an attribution method.

TL;DR: A new algorithm, the simplified urban-extent (SUE) algorithm, is developed to estimate the surface urban heat island (UHI) intensity at a global scale using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer images to calculate the UHI intensity for over 9500 urban clusters using over 15 years of data, making this one of the most comprehensive characterizations of the surface UHI to date.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that people of color and people living in poverty bear a disproportionate burden of urban heat exposure in almost all major cities in the continental United States and that the average person of color lives in a census tract with higher urban heat island (SUHI) intensity than non-Hispanic whites in all but 6 of the 175 largest urbanized areas in the United States.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between distributions of both UHI and income at the neighborhood scale for 25 cities around the world and found that UHI tends to be less equally distributed than income.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used NDVI, a satellite-derived proxy for live green vegetation, and US census tract delineations to characterize how vegetation density modulates interurban, intra-urban, and inter-seasonal variability in SUHI intensity.