Surface urban heat island in China's 32 major cities: Spatial patterns and drivers

2014 ◽  
Vol 152 ◽  
pp. 51-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Decheng Zhou ◽  
Shuqing Zhao ◽  
Shuguang Liu ◽  
Liangxia Zhang ◽  
Chao Zhu
2021 ◽  
pp. 117802
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. El Kenawy ◽  
Juan I. Lopez-Moreno ◽  
Matthew F. McCabe ◽  
Fernando Domínguez-Castro ◽  
Dhais Peña-Angulo ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angel Hsu ◽  
Glenn Sheriff ◽  
Tirthankar Chakraborty ◽  
Diego Manya

AbstractUrban heat stress poses a major risk to public health. Case studies of individual cities suggest that heat exposure, like other environmental stressors, may be unequally distributed across income groups. There is little evidence, however, as to whether such disparities are pervasive. We combine surface urban heat island (SUHI) data, a proxy for isolating the urban contribution to additional heat exposure in built environments, with census tract-level demographic data to answer these questions for summer days, when heat exposure is likely to be at a maximum. We find that the average person of color lives in a census tract with higher SUHI intensity than non-Hispanic whites in all but 6 of the 175 largest urbanized areas in the continental United States. A similar pattern emerges for people living in households below the poverty line relative to those at more than two times the poverty line.


2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 576-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qihao Weng ◽  
Mohammad Karimi Firozjaei ◽  
Amir Sedighi ◽  
Majid Kiavarz ◽  
Seyed Kazem Alavipanah

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