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Should Cities Embrace Their Heat Islands as Shields from Extreme Cold
Jiachuan Yang,Elie Bou-Zeid +1 more
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The higher temperature in cities relative to their rural surroundings, known as the urban heat island (UHI), is one of the most well documented and severe anthropogenic modifications of the UHI as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
The higher temperature in cities relative to their rural surroundings, known as the urban heat island (UHI), is one of the most well documented and severe anthropogenic modifications of the...read more
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Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population
Gabriele Manoli,Gabriele Manoli,Simone Fatichi,Markus Schläpfer,Kailiang Yu,Thomas W. Crowther,Naika Meili,Paolo Burlando,Gabriel G. Katul,Elie Bou-Zeid +9 more
TL;DR: A coarse-grained model is introduced that links population, background climate, and UHI intensity, and it is shown that urban–rural differences in evapotranspiration and convection efficiency are the main determinants of warming.
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Is the Urban Heat Island intensity relevant for heat mitigation studies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that the Urban Heat Island intensity has little relevance for urban heat mitigation, and suggest the term "urban heat mitigation" to more accurately describe strategies aimed at cooling cities.
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Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities.
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.
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A spatially explicit surface urban heat island database for the United States: Characterization, uncertainties, and possible applications
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.
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Cooling hot cities: a systematic and critical review of the numerical modelling literature
E. Scott Krayenhoff,E. Scott Krayenhoff,Ashley M. Broadbent,Lei Zhao,Matei Georgescu,Ariane Middel,James A. Voogt,Alberto Martilli,David J. Sailor,Evyatar Erell +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors systematically review 146 studies from 1987-2017 that conduct physically-based numerical modelling of urban air temperature reduction resulting from green-blue infrastructure and reflective materials and conclude that evaluation of the base case simulation is not a sufficient prerequisite for accurate simulation of heat mitigation strategy cooling.
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