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Information entropy analysis of the relation between climate and thermal adaptation: A case study in hot summer and cold winter region of China Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Shenglan Jing, Yonggang Lei, Chongfang Song, Fei Wang
The shift of paradigm from reductionist to holism in the field of thermal adaptation promoted a boom in thermal adaptation theory and provided a systemic perspective on this issue. The thermal adaptation theory confronts twin difficulties of scale and complexity. The complexity and entropy of occupants' thermal adaptation emerging. This paper aims to investigate the information entropy exchange in
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Comparison of cooling grey solutions in the sense-city urban demonstrator for adapting cities to heat waves Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Anne Ruas, Valentin Clemence, Bruno Barroca, Yan Ulanowski
Faced with the increase in urban heat in summer, cities must quickly adapt by offering cool islands. If nature-based solutions are efficient and popular, other so-called grey solutions exist and can also provide solutions. In this paper we compare standard grey solutions in Sense-city, an urban demonstrator equipped with sensor, located in the scientific campus of Cité Descartes at Marne la Vallée
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Modeling the long-range transmission of airborne bioaerosol releases in a high-density urban environment Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Zhijian Dong, Zhijian Liu, Chenxing Hu, Yongjun Jin, Chenglin Ye, Yuchen He, Rui Rong
In this study, the effect of different meteorological conditions in four seasons on the flow field in a high-density urban environment was examined using numerical simulations. The effect of different thermal conditions on bioaerosol dispersion was evaluated. The dispersions of bioaerosol under three leakage scenarios, i.e., far from crowds (Release 1), close to crowds (Release 2), and simultaneous
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Urbanization impacts on sequential flood-heatwave events in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Kaican Zheng, Zhuoyan Xian, Weilin Liao, Yang Chen
Urbanization has been shown to significantly increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, i.e., extreme precipitation events, and heatwave events. Actually, the occurrence of compound extreme events, such as sequential flood-heatwave (SFH) events, can lead to more severe impacts than singular extreme events. However, the impact of urbanization on these compound extreme events is
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Heat vulnerability and spatial equity of cooling center: Planning implications from the Korean case Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Ji Sun Lee, Albert Tonghoon Han
Over the past decade, the number of patients with heat-related illnesses has steeply increased in South Korea. South Korea's main heat adaptation planning revolves around providing cooling shelters, mostly in the form of elderly centers, to those who cannot afford adequate cooling resources. While implementing such a policy is important, it is also important to evaluate the effectiveness of existing
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The divergent effects of polycentric urban form on urban carbon emissions: Spatial balance and spatial dispersion in Chinese cities Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Yushan Jin, Yuanshuo Xu
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Natural shading vs. artificial shading: A comparative analysis of their cooling efficacy in extreme hot weather Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Wanlu Ouyang, Guancong Ren, Zheng Tan, Yilun Li, Chao Ren
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Short term forecasting of persistent air quality deterioration events in the metropolis of Sao Paulo Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 L.V. Rizzo, A.G.B. Miranda
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Implementing policies to mitigate urban heat islands: Analyzing urban development factors with an innovative machine learning approach Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Shiang-Yu Wang, Hsing-Yu Ou, Ping-Chun Chen, Tzu-Ping Lin
Taiwan is located in a hot and humid subtropical climate. Urban development, building heat emissions, and human activities lead to the urban heat island (UHI) effect in which urban air temperatures are significantly higher than those in the surrounding suburban areas. In this study, the factors contributing to the UHI effect were investigated in a case study of Taichung City, Taiwan by using high-resolution
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Evolution and determinants of precipitation chemistry in a plateau city, China: Insight from the pollutants source identification and environmental effect Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Jie Zeng, Guilin Han, Qixin Wu, Qing Ma, Shijun Mao, Xin Ge, Zhong-Jun Wang, Chao Yang
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Dynamic estimation of urban heat exposure for outdoor jogging: Combining individual trajectory and mean radiant temperature Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Yong Liu, Guangyu Zhang, Wei Yang
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Factors influencing outdoor thermal comfort in a coastal park during the transition seasons in cold regions of China Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Hongchi Zhang, Yuqiu Wang, Fei Guo, Jun Zhao, Jing Dong, Peisheng Zhu
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Impact of urbanization and land use on wetland water quality: A case study in Mengxi town Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Shaoyi Wang, Huabin Shentu, Hailan Yu, Libing Wang, Jianguang Wang, Junchao Ma, Heng Zheng, Senjun Huang, Lei Dong, Jun Wei
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Climate change adaptation and mitigation potential of EVs in Tokyo metropolitan area Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Kazuki Yamaguchi, Yuya Takane, Tomohiko Ihara
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The allergenic potential of green urban areas in the Macaronesian islands: The case of Funchal City (Madeira) Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Irene Camacho, Álvaro Macías-de-la-Rosa, Roberto Camacho, Agnieszka Grinn-Gofroń, Paloma Cariñanos
Public gardens are elements that constitute the urban green infrastructure. Such units provide ecosystem services that are becoming a key concern in urban planning strategies.
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Investigating the microclimate impacts of blue–green space development in the urban–rural fringe using the WRF-UCM model Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Wei Ding, Hong Chen
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Assessing atmospheric CO2 concentrations and contributions from biogenic and anthropogenic sources in the Pearl River Delta region Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 B. Mai, Y. Diao, H. Yang, T. Deng, Y. Zou, Y. Wang, W. Lan, X. Liu, X. Deng
The dynamics of atmospheric CO concentrations in urban agglomerations have been a topic of interest in research on global climate change, yet there remain significant uncertainties within the estimates of CO contributions from biogenic and anthropogenic sources. In this study, the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with the Vegetation Photosynthetic Respiration Model (WRF-VPRM) was implemented
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Broadband infrastructure and urban carbon emissions: Quasi-experimental evidence from China Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Miaomiao Wei, Xiguo Yin
As the fundamental foundation of digital economy development, broadband infrastructure has a crucial role in promoting economic growth; however, the influence of broadband infrastructure on carbon emissions remains uncertain. This study examines whether broadband infrastructure is correlated with reduced urban carbon emissions, using a multiperiod difference-in-differences (DID) model with Broadband
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Effects of land use and land cover change under shared socioeconomic pathways on future climate in the Yellow River basin, China Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Xutong Ru, Longxin Qiao, Haopeng Zhang, Tianqi Bai, Ruiqi Min, Yaobin Wang, Qianfeng Wang, Hongquan Song
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Response of surface energy components to urban heatwaves and its impact on human comfort in coastal city Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Yizhao Wei, Han Chen, Jinhui Jeanne Huang
Heatwaves become more intensive and frequent due to global warming, but their impact on energy components, such as sensible heat flux and latent heat flux, and human discomfort remains unclear. This study combines the discomfort index and the Excess Heat Factor to estimate the Excess Discomfort Factor, an index that reflects the degree of human comfort during a heatwave. The daily energy components
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Unequal transfer and its policy implications of carbon emissions and economic benefits embodied among Central Plains urban agglomeration Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Shuan Peng, Min Chen, Zefeng Qi, Nihed Benani, Tao Wang, Xuefang Wu, Xi Cheng, Jian Lin Chen, Guozhu Mao, Pingjian Yang
Tracing the carbon emissions and economic benefits embodied in trade is crucial for the equitable allocation of mitigation responsibilities, particularly among cities in China, where studies on this topic are lacking. Therefore, this study selected the Central Plains Urban Agglomeration (CPUA) as a representative region. It compiled carbon emissions inventories following the 2006 IPCC guidelines and
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Investigation of ambient BTEX concentrations along a bus rapid transit route in Tabriz: Spatio-temporal variations and health risk assessment Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Neda Hosseinpour, Zahra Sabeti, Hassan Aslani, Khaled Zoroufchi Benis, Mohammad Shakerkhatibi, Arash Najaflou, Masoumeh Malekzadeh, Raana Tayefeh Rahimian
Urgent actions are imperative to assess ambient BTEX concentration in urban areas and increase awareness of the significant health risks linked to exposure to these volatile compounds. This study examines the spatiotemporal variations of BTEX concentration in BRT stations and provides a health risk assessment in Tabriz, located in the northwest of Iran. We collected samples repeatedly from four BRT
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Enhancing urban climate resilience: A holistic evaluation of urban forest disservices in the aftermath of typhoons Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Wan-Yu Liu, Chen-Rui Liu, Chun-Cheng Lin
Ecosystem services associated with urban forests have gained increasing attention, but there has been a relative lack of focus on the corresponding ecosystem disservices, including financial burdens, air pollution, allergens, pests, diseases, and safety concerns. Situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, Taiwan faces the highest global number of tropical cyclones. Typhoons significantly damage the urban
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Influencing assessment of mask wearing on thermal comfort and pleasure during outdoor walking in hot summer region Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Rong Hu, Jianlin Liu, Yongxin Xie, Yun Su, Zhaosong Fang, Yongfa Diao, Henggen Shen
Face masks are normally used by ones who work /walk outdoors to protect them away from air pollutants, for instance, traffic police, but the impact on the outdoor thermal perception is rarely reported in high-density cities during extreme hot summer. This study aims to explore the effect of face mask wearing on subjects' thermal perceptions with walking in Shanghai during summer. 796 valid questionnaires
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Impact of courtyard orientation on thermal performance of school buildings' temperature Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Muna Salameh, Bassam Abu-Hijleh, Basim Touqan
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Evaluation of surface urban energy and water balance scheme (SUEWS) using scaled 2D model experiments under various seasons and sky conditions Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jian Hang, Liyue Zeng, Yurong Shi, Longhao Ren, Dongyang Wang, Yongjiu Dai, Xuemei Wang
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GIS and AHP-based groundwater recharge potential zones in urban region: A study of Ajmer City, Rajasthan, India Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Vivekanand Tiwari, Atul Kumar, Mahua Mukherjee
The substantial change in land use due to the physical development of the urban areas affects natural infiltration. Recognizing the complexities and challenges of groundwater recharge in the urban region is essential for future urban water security. The availability of tools and techniques to study and analyze groundwater storage and dynamics in the complex urban environment provides an opportunity
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Spatiotemporal evolution and influencing factors of surface urban heat island footprint across different-sized cities Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Hongchao Xu, Chunlin Li, Yuanman Hu, Hao Wang, Ding Wen, Zhenxing Li, Xiaoying Ping, Qiuyue Wang, Qi Li
With the development of urbanization, the urban heat island (UHI) effect has gradually increased. The UHI footprint (FP) is an important indicator of the UHI effect and can quantitatively characterize its spatial pattern, it is essential to investigate the state of UHI FP for mitigating UHI problem. Therefore, the logistic model was applied in this study to assess the spatiotemporal characteristics
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Investigation of the decadal unplanned urban expansion influenced surface urban heat island study in the Mosul metropolis Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Salwan Ali Abed, Bijay Halder, Zaher Mundher Yaseen
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High resolution modelling of the urban heat island of 100 European cities Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Dirk Lauwaet, Julie Berckmans, Hans Hooyberghs, Hendrik Wouters, Guy Driesen, Filip Lefebre, Koen De Ridder
In urban areas across Europe, high air temperatures and urban heat islands (UHIs) greatly affect public health, with climate change further increasing the mortality risks. This study presents a validated high resolution (100 m) hourly air temperature dataset for 100 European cities for a 10-year period (2008–2017) that is made available for urban climate research. The data is used to analyse the UHI
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Spatial distribution of heat vulnerability in Toronto, Canada Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Shuchen Bu, Karen L. Smith, Fadi Masoud, Alexandra Sheinbaum
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Spatial and temporal variation of anthropogenic heat emissions in Colombo, Sri Lanka Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Lewis Blunn, Xiaoxiong Xie, Sue Grimmond, Zhiwen Luo, Ting Sun, Narein Perera, Rangajeewa Ratnayake, Rohinton Emmanuel
Anthropogenic heat emissions (AHEs) should be accounted for when making city, neighbourhood, and building scale decisions about building design, health preparedness (e.g. heat stress), and achieving net zero carbon. Therefore, datasets with spatial and temporal variations are required for the range of global cities, including lower-middle income, low-latitude cities. Here we estimate the 2020 AHEs
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Linking land surface temperature and local climate zones in nine Croatian cities Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Matej Žgela, Ivana Herceg-Bulić, Jakov Lozuk, Patrik Jureša
This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of local climate zones (LCZ) and surface urban heat island (SUHI) in nine Croatian cities utilizing land surface temperature (LST). LCZ Generator web application was used for LCZ classification. The LST was assessed for all cloud-free pixels during the summer seasons 2013–2021 using Google Earth Engine, a cloud-based geospatial analysis platform
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Urban Heat Island effect and Urban Thermal Field Variance Index phenomenon at the heart of ‘Chicken's Neck Corridor’ of India Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Veedhya Chettry, D. Sabarinath, I.K. Manonmani
Siliguri corridor, the ‘Chicken Neck Corridor of India’, is one of the largest Municipal areas in West Bengal and is of great geo-strategic importance as it lies at the crossroads between India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh connecting the north-eastern part of India with mainland India. This study uses the LANDSAT 7 ETM+ and LANDSAT 9 TIR OLI imageries from USGS Earth Explorer to determine Land Surface
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Integrating land use and traffic to spatial prediction of particulate matter Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Vineet Gupta, Rashmi Choudhary, Amit Agarwal
With degrading air quality and inefficient monitoring systems, spatial prediction of pollutants has become necessary. Air pollution exposure causes significant impacts on human health in urban areas around the world. The current study focuses on developing a deep learning model for spatial prediction of particulate matter at locations where the monitored data is unavailable. Delhi, India, is selected
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Numerical investigation of thermal patterns and local wind circulations to characterize Urban Heat Island during a heatwave in Turin Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Lippin Pauly, Massimo Canonico, Enrico Ferrero
Heatwaves are annually increasing in terms of intensity and frequency. In urban areas, the impact could be further exacerbated by the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. This work carries out an urban microclimate numerical analysis to evaluate the behavior of the UHI in the city of Turin (Italy) during a heatwave event. Turin is located in the North-West region of Italy, boarded by the Alps mountain ranges
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Disasters in Petrópolis, Brazil: political, urban planning, and geometeorological factors that contributed to the event on February 15, 2022 Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Paula Sayeko Souza Oda, Débora Luisa Silva Teixeira, Thaís Aparecida Cortez Pinto, Filipe Pereira da Silva, Daniela Rocha Teixeira Riondet-Costa, Enrique Vieira Mattos, Diego Oliveira de Souza, Fabiana Bartolomei, Michelle Simões Reboita, Ana Paula Paes dos Santos
In Brazil, Petrópolis, situated in the mountainous region of the Rio de Janeiro, stands out as one of the areas most severely affected by disasters. The present study aims to provide: i) an overview of disaster cases in Petrópolis (2018 to 2022); ii) the geometeorological mechanisms that supported the occurrence of the extreme precipitation event on February 15, 2022; and iii) the role of urban planning
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Community perspectives on heat and health in Baltimore City Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Idiatou Diallo, Linchen He, Kirsten Koehler, Adam P. Spira, Rasika Kale, Jierui Ou, Genee Smith, Sabriya L. Linton, Jura Augustinavicius
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A new method for evaluate the cold island effect in cities Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Hu Chunming, Li Shuaiqi, Dong Xi
Building urban parks is one of the important ways to alleviate the Urban Heat Island Effect, and the cold island effect is a commonly used indicator to characterize the cooling effect of urban parks on surrounding areas. This study takes the Olympic Park in Beijing as an example and combines remote sensing data with measured data from meteorological stations to propose a new method for evaluating the
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Comparing universal thermal climate index (UTCI) with selected thermal indices to evaluate outdoor thermal comfort in traditional courtyards with BWh climate Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad, Jalil Shaeri, Amir Nezami, Ali Goharian
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Integrating variable renewable energy and diverse flexibilities: Supplying carbon-free energy from a wind turbine to a data center Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Reo Kontani, Kenji Tanaka
Variable renewable energy sources (VREs) have experienced steady global growth. The discontinuation of feed-in tariffs (FIT) for new projects in Japan has necessitated the exploration of alternative revenue certainty mechanisms for VREs. Power purchase agreements (PPAs) for supplying carbon-free energy (CFE) have emerged as a promising business model. This study provides a practical framework for integrating
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Can public transportation development improve urban air quality? Evidence from China Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Shenghao Bi, Jin Hu, Liangshan Shao, Tianchu Feng, Andrea Appolloni
Promoting public transportation development is a crucial strategy to improve urban air quality. China's “Transit Metropolis” construction demonstration project policy (“Transit Metropolis” policy) is an important initiative around public transportation development. This paper uses the differences-in-differences (DID) method to examine the improvement effect of China's “Transit Metropolis” policy on
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Characterizing the effects of extreme heat events on all-cause mortality: A case study in Ahmedabad city of India, 2002–2018 Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Ayushi Sharma, Priya Dutta, Priyanka Shah, Veena Iyer, Hao He, Amir Sapkota, Chuansi Gao, Yu-Chun Wang
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A large mid-latitude city intensifies severe convective events: Evidence from long-term high-resolution simulations Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 V.S. Platonov, M.I. Varentsov, Yu.I. Yarinich, A.N. Shikhov, A.V. Chernokulsky
Urban areas are vulnerable to climate and weather extremes, including severe convective events. However, large cities can themselves intensify such events, although the magnitude of this intensification remains uncertain. In this study, we quantify the influence of Moscow on severe convective events by using simulations with the convection-permitting COSMO-CLM model with 1-km resolution for multiple
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Study on the risk of rainstorm waterlogging disaster in hilly cities based on Sponge City construction-liking Suining Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Zhang Xin, Zhou Chenyi, Luo Hao, Zeng Xiaoyu, Shu Zhile, Jiang Lijun, Wang Zelin, Fei Zheng
The severity of urban flood disasters in China is increasing due to the rapid development of global climate change and urbanization. Taking the sponge city pilot-Suining City as a case study, this paper utilizes GIS and RS technology to establish a comprehensive risk assessment model for rainstorm flood disasters. The model incorporates evaluation factors at various levels, including risk, sensitivity
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Predicting land surface temperature and examining its relationship with air pollution and urban parameters in Bengaluru: A machine learning approach Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Gourav Suthar, Nivedita Kaul, Sumit Khandelwal, Saurabh Singh
The study aims to predict land surface temperature (LST) of Bengaluru, a rapidly urbanizing city of India facing air pollution and temperature challenges. Different parameters, like air pollutants, urbanization factors, surface indices, and meteorological data, were used to develop machine learning models. The analysis revealed strong to moderate correlations between LST and most parameters, during
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Urban fraction influence on local nocturnal cooling rates from low-cost sensors in Dallas-Fort Worth Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Braedyn D. McBroom, David A. Rahn, Nathaniel A. Brunsell
Increased health risks and economic vulnerability are associated with higher nighttime temperatures in urban areas. Urbanization slows cooling overnight, and the heterogeneous built environment leads to inequitable distributions of health risks and cooling costs. Quantifying the relationship between the local built environment and cooling rates of air temperature is typically inhibited by a lack of
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Comparing the warming effects of different urban forms under projected climate change in China's Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Yimin Chen, Shuai Zhao, Lin Pei
In many fast developing countries, compact development is considered an important approach to halt urban expansion. While the benefits of compact development have been confirmed by many empirical studies, the warming effects that compact development causes in the context of climate change have not yet been well identified. This study integrates a simulation model of urban development and the Weather
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Assessing long-term exposure to wind-driven rain in urban environments: A computational method Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Alexis Sauvageon
Wind-driven rain, resulting from the combination of rainfall and wind, can cause several issues to buildings. These issues range from occupant discomfort and wall soiling to electrical equipment failure and structural damage caused by water infiltration, frost, or dirt accumulation. This paper introduces a methodology devised to assess the exposure of urban structures to wind-driven rain across extended
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Urban park's vertical canopy structure and its varied cooling effect under continuous warming climate Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Tiantian Zhou, Wenxiao Jia, Liang Yan, Bo Hong, Kai Wang
Green infrastructure has been confirmed to be nature-based solution for mitigating urban warming. However, knowledge about whether urban parks would cool down surroundings in the hotter weather as usual days is still limited. In this study, we integrated light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data and remote sensing satellite to obtain vertical vegetation structures and cooling performance of urban parks
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Ecological connectivity analysis of typical coastal areas in China: The case of Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Yumei Liu, Xuezhou Huang, Jiuyi Li, Zhiyong Wang, Chen Xu, Yan Xu
As a rapidly urbanizing coastal area, Zhangzhou experiences tension in the human-environment relationship, leading to issues such as fragmented landscape patterns and hindered connectivity of ecological elements. These problems pose serious threats to biodiversity conservation and the construction of ecological networks. Analyzing ecological network connectivity is essential in spatial planning and
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Utilizing LSTM models to predict PM2.5 levels during critical episodes in Delhi, the world's most polluted capital city Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Sanchit Bedi, Arpit Katiyar, N.M. Anoop Krishnan, Sri Harsha Kota
The aim of this study was to utilize a Recurrent Neural Network with long short-term memory (LSTM) units to forecast PM levels in Delhi. Four monitoring stations in Delhi were used to gather the PM data required for training and evaluating the models. The models used in the study included four different combinations of variables: (i) PM data only, (ii) PM data combined with meteorology, (iii) PM data
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The impact of urbanization on heat stress in Brazil: A multi-city study Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Eduardo Krüger, João Paulo Assis Gobo, Graziela Tosini Tejas, Reginaldo Martins da Silva de Souza, João Batista Ferreira Neto, Gabriel Pereira, David Mendes, Claudia Di Napoli
This study focuses on local climate modifications as observed in historical records of climate normals and in reanalysis-derived thermal stress data for two years unaffected by El Niño (1985 and 2020) across an approximately southeast-northwest transect over the Brazilian territory. Six major cities were analyzed, namely Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Brasília, Cuiabá, Porto Velho, and Manaus, each characterized
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The London pollution island under Lamb weather types Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Isidro A. Pérez, Mª. Ángeles García, Saeed Rasekhi, Fatemeh Pazoki
This study considers the daily values of gridded concentrations for NO, O, PM and PM in London and its surroundings over 2007–2011. A two-step procedure was used for concentration smoothing to observe the urban pollution island. In the first step, the elliptic fit was compared with fits from the Gaussian and Epanechnikov kernels. The results obtained for the Gaussian kernel were used to apply an elliptic
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The effect of urban heat islands on pediatric asthma exacerbation: How race plays a role Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Kaitlyn Adams, Colette Steward Knuth
Climate change disproportionately affects marginalized communities as seen with the urban heat island phenomenon. This is an example of environmental racism as it stems from past governmental policy: redlining. Environmental racism also leads to health inequities, as seen with asthma in Black communities. Studies have shown the relationship between the urban heat island phenomenon and asthma exacerbation;
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Analysis of Mumbai floods in recent years with crowdsourced data Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Shrabani Sailaja Tripathy, Sautrik Chaudhuri, Raghu Murtugudde, Vedant Mhatre, Dulari Parmar, Manasi Pinto, P.E. Zope, Vishal Dixit, Subhankar Karmakar, Subimal Ghosh
Mumbai, a densely populated coastal city, experiences frequent extreme rainfall events leading to floods and waterlogging. However, the lack of real-time flood monitoring and detailed past flooding data limits the scientific analysis to extreme rainfall assessment. To address this, we explore the usability of crowdsourced data for identifying flood hotspots and extracting reliable flood information
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Remote sensing and GIS based multi-criteria analysis approach with application of AHP and FAHP for structures suitability of rainwater harvesting structures in Lai Nullah, Rawalpindi, Pakistan Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Rashid Ahmad, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Farooq Alam, Riaz Zarin, Abdur Raziq, Muhammad Nouman, Hsu-Wen Vincent Young, Yuei-An Liou
Rapid urbanization in the twin city of Rawalpindi and Islamabad led to increase in deforestation due to built-up infrastructure, hence; an increase in flood peaks in catchment area of Lai Nullah. For this purpose, rainwater harvesting is a viable and sustainable approach for surface water management. In this study, an integrated approach of Remote Sensing and GIS was applied by using multi-Criteria
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Prediction of extreme rainfall events in 21st century - The results based on Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Zhichao Jiao, Md Ashraful Alam, Jihui Yuan, Craig Farnham, Kazuo Emura
The escalation of climate change caused more extreme rainfall, increasing flood damage in Japan since around 2010. Therefore, it is crucial to examine climate change's impact on extreme rainfall events over the past 100 years and assess whether the existing return level standards effectively address the requirements for mitigating urban flood risks in the present scenario. The annual maximum hourly
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Impact of urbanization induced land use and land cover change on ecological space quality- mapping and assessment in Delhi (India) Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Manob Das, Arijit Das, Paulo Pereira
Degradation of ecological quality has emerged as one of the serious environmental problems across the globe. Notably, in developing countries' cities, ecological quality deteriorates more prominent due to the dramatic loss of ecological spaces driven by rapid urbanization. This study aims to assess ecological space quality (ESQ) in Delhi megacity (India) using entropy method (EM) and geospatial approaches
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Urban greenery and alternative water sources critically interconnect water supply, cooling, and drainage in urban precincts Urban Clim. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Cassady Swinbourne, Steven Kenway, Katherine R. O'Brien
Three key features of urban water systems, supply, cooling, and drainage are both protective against, and susceptible to, climate impacts. These features are strongly connected in the urban water cycle; however, are generally studied and managed individually, and impact at different spatial and temporal scales. This paper considers: How can supply, cooling, and drainage be assessed, and how do they