Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect in a highly populated urban agglomeration area in East China

2018 ◽  
Vol 628-629 ◽  
pp. 415-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Decheng Zhou ◽  
Stefania Bonafoni ◽  
Liangxia Zhang ◽  
Ranghui Wang
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Urban Agglomeration ◽  
Urban Heat Island Effect ◽  
East China ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
Urban Heat

Evaluation of the surface urban heat island effect in the city of Madrid by thermal remote sensing

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 3177-3192 ◽  
Author(s):  
José A. Sobrino ◽  
Rosa Oltra-Carrió ◽  
Guillem Sòria ◽  
Juan Carlos Jiménez-Muñoz ◽  
Belén Franch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Urban Heat Island Effect ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Thermal Remote Sensing ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
Urban Heat ◽  
Surface Urban Heat Island ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect across biomes in the continental USA

2010 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 504-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc L. Imhoff ◽  
Ping Zhang ◽  
Robert E. Wolfe ◽  
Lahouari Bounoua
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Urban Heat Island Effect ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
Urban Heat

scholarly journals Data and techniques for studying the urban heat island effect in Johannesburg

2015 ◽  
Vol XL-7/W3 ◽  
pp. 203-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. H. Hardy ◽  
A. L. Nel
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Urban Heat Island Effect ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
Urban Heat ◽  
The City

The city of Johannesburg contains over 10 million trees and is often referred to as an urban forest. The intra-urban spatial variability of the levels of vegetation across Johannesburg’s residential regions has an influence on the urban heat island effect within the city. Residential areas with high levels of vegetation benefit from cooling due to evapo-transpirative processes and thus exhibit weaker heat island effects; while their impoverished counterparts are not so fortunate. The urban heat island effect describes a phenomenon where some urban areas exhibit temperatures that are warmer than that of surrounding areas. The factors influencing the urban heat island effect include the high density of people and buildings and low levels of vegetative cover within populated urban areas. This paper describes the remote sensing data sets and the processing techniques employed to study the heat island effect within Johannesburg. In particular we consider the use of multi-sensorial multi-temporal remote sensing data towards a predictive model, based on the analysis of influencing factors.

scholarly journals Impact of urbanization on thermal environment of Chengdu-Chongqing Urban Agglomeration under complex terrain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Si Chen ◽  
Zhenghui Xie ◽  
Jinbo Xie ◽  
Bin Liu ◽  
Binghao Jia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Complex Terrain ◽  
Thermal Environment ◽  
Urban Agglomeration ◽  
Urban Heat Island Effect ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
The Future ◽  
Urban Heat

Abstract. Located in the mountainous area of southwest China, the Chengdu-Chongqing Urban Agglomeration (CCUA) was rapidly urbanized in the last four decades, has led to a three-fold urban area expansion, thereby affecting the weather and climate. To investigate the urbanization effects on the thermal environment in the CCUA under the complex terrain, we conducted the simulations using the advanced Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF V4.1.5) model together with the combining land-use scenarios and terrain conditions. We observed that the WRF model reproduces the general synoptic summer weather pattern, particularly for the thermal environment. It was shown that the expansion of the urban area changed the underlying surface's thermal properties, leading to the urban heat island effect, enhanced by the complex terrain further. The simulation with the future scenario shows that the implementation of idealized measures including returning farmland to forests, expanding rivers and lakes can reduce the urban heat island effect and regulate the urban ecosystem. Therefore, the urban planning policy can has potential to provide feasible suggestions to best manage the thermal environment of the future city toward improving the livelihood of the people in the environment.

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