In coastal cities, the effect of the sea breeze in mitigating the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon has attracted attention. This study targeted the Fukuoka–Kitakyushu metropolitan area, the fourth largest metropolitan area in Japan which is also coastal. Doppler Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) observations were conducted in the summer of 2015 to clarify the transition of the wind field ov...

Sky View Factor (SVF, a dimensionless value between 0 and 1 representing obstructed and unobstructed sky, respectively) has an important influence on urban energy balance, and is a key contributor to the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect experienced by heavily built up regions. Continuous urban SVF maps used in modeling the spatial distribution of UHI can be derived analytically using Lidar data; ...

The Urban Heat Island effect concerns the higher air temperature in urban environment with respect to the rural one. This phenomenon has been well known for hundreds of years, but it has been experimentally studied only for the last few decades and in large metropolis. The paper reports on the experimental results obtained during the period 2010–2011 in a medium size city of Italy by the resear...

1 Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK, Tel +44 (0)116 252 3812, Fax +44 (0)116 252 3854, 2 School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT 3 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Schlossplatz 1, A-2361, Laxenburg, Austria Tel +43 (0)2236 807 0, Fax: +43 (0)2236 71 313 4 Centre for Mountain Studies, Perth College-UHI, Perth, PH1 2NX, ...

The urban moisture island (UMI) can aggravate the thermal stress due to heat (UHI) in subtropical and tropical cities. In this study, we investigated spatiotemporal variation patterns of UMI Hong Kong, a coastal city, using fine-resolution mesoscale Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) model by integrating local climate zone (LCZ) maps based on World Urban Database Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT). O...

Urban heat island (UHI) effects significantly impact building energy. Traditional UHI investigation methods are often incapable of providing the high spatial density observations required to distinguish small-scale temperature differences in UHI. Crowdsourcing offers a solution. Building cooling/heating load 2018 has been estimated London, UK, using crowdsourced data from over 1300 Netatmo pers...

Abstract The rapid development of the city Yogyakarta has resulted in conversion land functions from built-up to undeveloped areas such as residential areas, office and industrial areas. This land-use change is predicted impact changes weather climate most cities cause Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon. will have implications for thermal comfort which can affect productivity community activiti...

The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon gets intensified in the process of urbanization, which increases vulnerability dwellers to heatwaves. UHI-induced heatwaves has increased Bangladesh during past decades. Thus, this study aims examine UHI and city Dhaka using a index (HVI). HVI is constructed various demographic, socioeconomic, environmental risk variables at thana level. Principal componen...

Previous studies have found that built-environment characteristics in large cities produce important effects of the urban heat island (UHI) and know horizontal space affected by canopy microclimate ranges from about 30–200 m, but there are few medium-sized cities. Therefore, this study investigates canopy-scale their correlation with Chiayi city, a tropical, city. Under 100 m buffer size, 2D 3D...