Long-term urban and rural climate data spanning January 1995 through October 2013 were analyzed to investigate the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect in a representative mid-sized city of the central US. Locally distributed climate data were also collected at nested low density urban, recently developed, and high density urban monitoring sites from June through September 2013 to improve mechanistic...

The urban heat island (UHI) effect resulted from urbanization as well industrialization has become a major environmental problem. UHI aggravates global warming and endangers human health. Thus, mitigating the primary task to address these challenges. This paper verifies feasibility of three-dimensional turbulent porous media model. Using this model, authors simulate canopy wind-heat environment...

In Guadeloupe (French West Indies), the main municipal solid waste is surrounded by highly urbanized areas. An urban heat island (UHI) behavior has been identified in the landfill environment. It has been measured and its intensity (up to more than 4 C) has been shown to be negatively correlated with nebulosity and Tradewinds strength. Conditions for urban breeze detection have been examined. T...

The region of Stuttgart, located in the south-western part of Germany, favors warm and humid climate accompanied by a low wind speed. Stuttgart lies in a basin-like sink and is surrounded by hills, a fact, which enforces the specific formation of these thermal and air quality conditions. The Urban Heat Island (UHI) of Stuttgart and its spatial distribution were assessed using thermal indices Ph...

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...

In Central Europe up to 85% of the population lives in cities or urban agglomerations (United Nations 2000). This makes the urban climate and its anthropogenic modifications an important issue for planners, scientists and policy makers. The urban climate differs completely from that of rural or forested areas. Since urban surfaces are extremely heterogeneous the interaction with the urban bound...

Urban heat islands are one of the most critical urban environment heat problems. Landsat ETM+ satellite data were used to investigate the land surface temperature and underlying surface indices such as NDVI and NDBI. A comparative study of the urban heat environment at different scales, times and locations was done to verify the heat island characteristics. Since remote sensing technology has l...