abstract urban expansion, pollution augmentation, and extention of major industrial activities in metropolitan areas impacted local climates of major cities. transforming big cities into heat islands is one of the most prominent results of such a micro-climate change. in this study, variation of precipitation, temperature and some other important climatic parameters including relative humidity,...

this paper examines the utility of the air pollution model (tapm) in simulating meteorology and dispersion of pm10 and wind data in order to assess the impacts of wind variability function on urban heat island for the day of 25, november, 2012 in karaj city that experienced severe degradation in air quality. drawing, skew-t diagrams, maps of surface pressure (500hp), omega (850hp) and atmospher...

An urban heat island (UHI) is an urban area where temperatures are higher than they are in the surrounding suburban areas. UHIs are of great scientific concern in the context of global environmental change. As a result of rapid economic development over the past three decades, the urban area in China has increased significantly. In the present study, to objectively determine the spatiotemporal ...

Heat stress is one of the most severe climate threats to human society in a future warmer world. The situation is further exacerbated in urban areas by urban heat islands (UHIs). Because the majority of world’s population is projected to live in cities, there is a pressing need to find effective solutions for the heat stress problem. We use a climate model to investigate the effectiveness of va...

Guangzhou city in South China has experienced an accelerated urban development since the 1980s. This paper examines the impact of the urban development on urban heat islands through a historical analysis of urban-rural air temperature differences. Remote sensing techniques were applied to derive information on land use/cover and land surface temperatures and to assess the thermal response patte...

Remotely sensed imagery has been increasingly used to study the urban heat island phenomenon by deriving and analyzing land surface temperatures. The technology of remote sensing has the advantage of providing a time-synchronized dense grid of temperature data over a whole city region and distinctive temperature measurements for individual buildings. Moreover, some remote sensing images have hi...