Impact of climate change on urban heat island effect and extreme temperatures: a case-study

2015 ◽  
Vol 142 (694) ◽  
pp. 172-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Sachindra ◽  
A. W. M. Ng ◽  
S. Muthukumaran ◽  
B. J. C. Perera
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Urban Heat Island Effect ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Extreme Temperatures ◽  
Impact Of Climate Change ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
Urban Heat

scholarly journals A Parametric Optimization Approach to Mitigating the Urban Heat Island Effect: A Case Study in Ancona, Italy

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Cocci Grifoni ◽  
Rosalba D’Onofrio ◽  
Massimo Sargolini ◽  
Mariano Pierantozzi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Parametric Optimization ◽  
Urban Heat Island Effect ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
Urban Heat

scholarly journals Mapping the Influence of Land Use/Land Cover Changes on the Urban Heat Island Effect—A Case Study of Changchun, China

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaobin Yang ◽  
Xingyuan He ◽  
Fengqin Yan ◽  
Lingxue Yu ◽  
Kun Bu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Urban Heat Island Effect ◽  
Land Cover Changes ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
Urban Heat

Analysis of heat wave features and urban heat island effect under climate change

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Tian ◽  
Klaus Fraedrich ◽  
Feng Ma
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Air Temperature ◽  
Extreme Events ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Urban Heat Island Effect ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
Urban Heat

<p>Extreme events such as heat waves occurred in urban have a large influence on human life due to population density. For urban areas, the urban heat island effect could further exacerbate the heat stress of heat waves. Meanwhile, the global climate change over the last few decades has changed the pattern and spatial distribution of local-scale extreme events. Commonly used climate models could capture broad-scale spatial changes in climate phenomena, but representing extreme events on local scales requires data with finer resolution. Here we present a deep learning based downscaling method to capture the localized near surface temperature features from climate models in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6) framework. The downscaling is based on super-resolution image processing methods which could build relationships between coarse and fine resolution. This downscaling framework will then be applied to future emission scenarios over the period 2030 to 2100. The influence of future climate change on the occurrence of heat waves in urban and its interaction with urban heat island effect for ten most densely populated cities in China are studied. The heat waves are defined based on air temperature and the urban heat island is measured by the urban-rural difference in 2m-height air temperature. Improvements in data resolution enhanced the utility for assessing the surface air temperature record. Comparisons of urban heat waves from multiple climate models suggest that near-surface temperature trends and heat island effects are greatly affected by global warming. High resolution climate data offer the potential for further assessment of worldwide urban warming influences.</p>

100 Years of Climate Change: A Night-Time Audio Walk

Leonardo ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-69
Author(s):  
Drew Hemment ◽  
Yara El-Sherbini ◽  
Carlo Buontempo ◽  
John Tweddle
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Urban Heat Island Effect ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
Urban Heat ◽  
Local Impacts ◽  
Short Walk

100 Years of Climate Change is an artwork inspired by the insight that we might experience 100 years of climate change by taking a short walk of 100 metres. Investigation of the local impacts of the Urban Heat Island effect culminated in a night-time audio walk to open up awareness of the urban climate.

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