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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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Linking green infrastructure to urban heat and human health risk mitigation in Oslo, Norway
TL;DR: The results indicate that maintaining and restoring tree cover provides an ecosystem service of urban heat reduction, and has particular relevance for health benefit estimation in urban ecosystem accounting and municipal policy decisions regarding ecosystem-based climate adaptation.
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Suitability of human settlements in mountainous areas from the perspective of ventilation: A case study of the main urban area of Chongqing
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper used the geographic information system spatial analysis method to quantitatively investigate the spatial variation in the suitability of human settlements in mountainous areas from the perspective of ventilation, and found that the population distribution in the main urban areas of Chongqing is affected by, in descending order, the LCI, FAI, RDLS, WRI, and LST.
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Green Spaces as an Indicator of Urban Health: Evaluating Its Changes in 28 Mega-Cities
TL;DR: The results showed that the mean availability of urban green spaces in these megacities increased from 27.63% in 2005 to 31.74% in 2015.
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Optimizing urban greenspace spatial pattern to mitigate urban heat island effects: Extending understanding from local to the city scale
Xiaoma Li,Weiqi Zhou +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between the city level surface UHI intensity and a series of explanatory variables belonging to urban greenspace spatial pattern, urban morphology, and urban-rural difference of surface characteristics, using the region of Illinios-Indiana-Ohio in the USA as a case study.
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Quantifying and simulating landscape composition and pattern impacts on land surface temperature: A decadal study of the rapidly urbanizing city of Beijing, China.
TL;DR: To achieve an improved and healthier urban living environment, populations controls should be considered to decrease future impervious surface demands by 7.69%-which corresponds to an average LST decrease of 1.1 °C.
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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.