Cooling effect of urban parks and their relationship with urban heat islands

Urban climates and heat islands: albedo, evapotranspiration, and anthropogenic heat

As an introduction to this special issue on urban heat islands and cool communities, this paper reviews some of the characteristics of urban climates and the causes and effects of urban heat islands. In particular, the impacts of surface albedo, evapotranspiration, and anthropogenic heating on the near-surface climate are discussed. Numerical simulations and field measurements indicate that inc...

The Cooling Effect of Urban Parks and Its Monthly Variations in a Snow Climate City

Urban parks have been shown to form park cool islands (PCIs), which can effectively alleviate the negative influences of urban heat islands (UHI). However, few studies have examined the detailed characteristics of PCIs, the effect of urban park features on their individual temperatures, and monthly variation in PCIs. Land surface temperature (LST) retrieved from Landsat 8 TIR images between May...

Benefits of Urban Parks

Investigating the Relationship between Different Functions of Urban Parks with Mental Health of the Elderly

Investigating the Relationship between Different Functions of Urban Parks with Mental Health of the Elderly   Rostam Saberifar1 1. Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Department of Urban Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. Iran, Mashhad, Blvd. Moallem, Moallem 71,Email: [email protected]  , Tel: 009851386839000   Abstract: Background & Objectiv...

A Quantitative Approach for Analyzing the Relationship between Urban Heat Islands and Land Cover

With more than 80% of Brazilians living in cities, urbanization has had an important impact on climatic variations. São José dos Campos is located in a region experiencing rapid urbanization, which has produced a remarkable Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. This effect influences the climate, environment and socio-economic development on a regional scale. In this study, the brightness temperature...