Heatwaves have been the deadliest weather extreme events in Europe last decades. People living cities are especially prone to such due urban heat island (UHI) effect which increases stress surroundings during calm, steady, and radiation intensive synoptic situations. Since official measurement stations scarce, studies on spatial patterns of UHIs often rely satellite data, hobby meteorologists' ...

• GNSS observation data collected in urban and rural areas Los Angeles. GNNS processed with Precise Point Positioning (PPP) technique. Algorithm developed to estimate temperature from Zenith Tropospheric Delay (ZTD). has been validated using Angeles, California. The Urban Heat Island Angeles California monitored data. (UHI) effect occurs when an area experiences higher temperatures than its sur...

Supported by the rapid economic development in the last few decades, China has become the largest energy consumer in the world. Alongside this, the effect of the anthropogenic heat released from energy consumption is increasingly apparent. We quantified the daytime and nighttime surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII) for the 32 major cities in mainland China, using MODIS land surface tempe...

The importance of trees in a challenging urban environment ABSTRACT Our cities are a challenging environment for plants due to urban specific environmental stresses like urban heat island effects altering the radiative regime. Ecosystem service provision by urban trees qualifies the uptake of urban greening as an engineering solution to climate change. Further interdisciplinary research and wid...

Urban heat island (UHI), a phenomenon in which land surface temperatures (LSTs) an urban area are notably higher than that the surrounding rural area, has made living environment thermally uncomfortable, endangered public health, and increased energy consumption on indoor air cooling. To develop liveable sustainable city, it is crucial to provide accurate estimation of UHI effect for planners w...

BACKGROUND Prior studies from around the world have indicated that very high temperatures tend to increase summertime mortality. However possible effect modification by urban micro heat islands has only been examined by a few studies in North America and Europe. This study examined whether daily mortality in micro heat island areas of Hong Kong was more sensitive to short term changes in meteor...

This research is motivated by the increasing threat of urban heat waves that are likely worsened by pervasive global warming and urbanization. Different regions of the city including urban, borderland and rural area will experience different levels of heat health risk. In this paper, we propose an improved approach to quantitatively assess Beijing’s heat health risk based on three factors from ...