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Optimizing green space locations to reduce daytime and nighttime urban heat island effects in Phoenix, Arizona
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In this paper, the authors developed a framework to identify the best locations and configuration of new green space with respect to cooling benefits in order to mitigate the effect of urban heat island effects.About:
This article is published in Landscape and Urban Planning.The article was published on 2017-09-01. It has received 191 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban heat island.read more
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Quantifying the Trends in Land Surface Temperature and Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity in Mediterranean Cities in View of Smart Urbanization
TL;DR: In this paper, satellite data from MODIS-Terra 8-day product (MOD11A2) were used for the analysis of an eighteen-year time series (2001-2017) of the LST spatial and temporal distribution in five major cities of the Mediterranean during the summer months.
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Testing an energy exchange and microclimate cooling hypothesis for the effect of vegetation configuration on urban heat
TL;DR: In this paper, the combination of energy exchanges between adjacent patches and microclimate cooling induced by vegetation are key processes determining how configuration affects land surface temperature (LST) in urban areas.
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Relationship between urban landscape structure and land surface temperature: spatial hierarchy and interaction effects
TL;DR: In this article , the relationship between landscape structure (landscape metrics) and land surface temperature (LST) across the spatial levels of UTE is explored. But the spatial hierarchy and interaction effects of the relationship among them are limitedly explored.
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Greening Blocks: A Conceptual Typology of Practical Design Interventions to Integrate Health and Climate Resilience Co-Benefits.
Sara Barron,Sophie A. Nitoslawski,Kathleen L. Wolf,Angie Woo,Erin Desautels,Stephen R.J. Sheppard +5 more
TL;DR: These interventions represent a hierarchy of functional design concepts that respond to experiential qualities and physical/psychological dimensions of health, and which enhance resilience at a range of social scales from the individual to the neighborhood.
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Alternative scenarios for ecological urbanizations using ENVI-met model.
TL;DR: It was concluded that deciduous plants in city center produced more positive results than coniferous plants in winter, and afforestation in cold climatic regions provides great advantages for both summer and winter and positively affects outdoor thermal comfort.
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Global Change and the Ecology of Cities
Nancy B. Grimm,Stanley H. Faeth,Nancy Golubiewski,Charles L. Redman,Jianguo Wu,Xuemei Bai,John M. Briggs +6 more
TL;DR: Urban ecology integrates natural and social sciences to study these radically altered local environments and their regional and global effects of an increasingly urbanized world.
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FRAGSTATS: spatial pattern analysis program for quantifying landscape structure
Kevin McGarigal,Barbara J. Marks +1 more
TL;DR: McGarigal et al. as mentioned in this paper developed a spatial pattern analysis program for quantifying landscape structure called FRAGSTATS, which is almost completely automated and thus requires little technical training.
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Two decades of urban climate research: a review of turbulence, exchanges of energy and water, and the urban heat island
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed progress in urban climatology over the two decades since the first publication of the International Journal of Climatology (IJC) and highlighted the role of scale, heterogeneity, dynamic source areas for turbulent fluxes and the complexity introduced by the roughness sublayer over the tall, rigid roughness elements of cities.
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The maximal covering location problem
TL;DR: The use of a maximal service distance as a measure of the value of a given locational configuration has been discussed at length by Toregas and ReVelle 1 who show that it is an important surrogate measurement for the value.
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Thermal remote sensing of urban climates
James A. Voogt,Timothy R. Oke +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the use of thermal remote sensing in the study of urban climates, focusing primarily on the urban heat island effect and progress made towards answering the methodological questions posed by Roth et al.