Journal of Building Engineering, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 64, P. 105705 - 105705
Published: Dec. 9, 2022
Language: Английский
Nature Communications, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 14(1)
Published: May 22, 2023
The population experiencing high temperatures in cities is rising due to anthropogenic climate change, settlement expansion, and growth. Yet, efficient tools evaluate potential intervention strategies reduce exposure Land Surface Temperature (LST) extremes are still lacking. Here, we implement a spatial regression model based on remote sensing data that able assess the LST urban environments across 200 surface properties like vegetation cover distance water bodies. We define as number of days per year where exceeds given threshold multiplied by total exposed, person ⋅ day. Our findings reveal plays considerable role decreasing extremes. show targeting high-exposure areas reduces needed for same decrease compared uniform treatment.
Language: Английский
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Urban Climate, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 55, P. 101909 - 101909
Published: April 11, 2024
Language: Английский
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Nature Cities, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 2(2), P. 157 - 169
Published: Jan. 6, 2025
Language: Английский
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Sustainable Cities and Society, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 106210 - 106210
Published: Feb. 1, 2025
Language: Английский
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PNAS Nexus, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 1(4)
Published: Sept. 1, 2022
Continued climate change is increasing the frequency, severity, and duration of populations' high temperature exposures. Indoor cooling a key adaptation, especially in urban areas, where heat extremes are intensified-the island effect (UHI)-making residential air conditioning (AC) availability critical to protecting human health. In United States, differences AC prevalence from one metropolitan area another well understood, but its intra-urban variation poorly characterized, obscuring neighborhood-scale variability vulnerability adaptive capacity. We address this gap by constructing empirically derived probabilities for 45,995 census tracts across 115 areas. Within cities, unequally distributed, with "core" exhibiting systematically lower than their suburban counterparts. Moreover, disparity correlates strongly multiple indicators social summer daytime surface UHI intensity, highlighting challenges that vulnerable populations face adapting climate-change driven stress amplification.
Language: Английский
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GIScience & Remote Sensing, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 59(1), P. 1121 - 1142
Published: July 22, 2022
Surface urban heat island (SUHI) can considerably influence the environment and quality of life. It is vital to examine how underlying surface properties impact seasonal diurnal SUHIs. However, three-dimensional (3D) morphological parameters (UMPs) on SUHIs has not been thoroughly studied under varying climatic settings. To fill this knowledge gap, present study investigated changes in SUHI intensities (ΔT) 208 cities China from 2014 2016 using moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) land temperature products. In addition, potential factors energy balance, including two-dimensional (2D) 3D UMPs, socio-economic indices, greening, albedo, ΔT were assessed different settings with city sizes method Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR). Results show that negative summer daytime was observed some dry climates. Generally, summer, during higher than at nighttime. The UMPs (i.e. building height volume) yielded more decisive influences 2D UMP coverage). This particularly true for cycle Building found be negatively correlated temperatures, while volume positively correlated. Additionally, winter ΔT. capability vegetation regulate potent climates wet small large cities. Varying modify significance suggesting thermal mitigation should consider climate background population size.
Language: Английский
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Environmental Research Letters, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 17(6), P. 064054 - 064054
Published: May 26, 2022
Abstract Heat has become a central concern for cities everywhere, but heat governance historically lagged behind other climate change hazards. This study examines 175 municipal plans from the 50 most populous in United States to understand which aspects of urban are included or not city and what factors explain inclusion. We find that majority mention heat, few include strategies address it even fewer cite sources information. The term ‘extreme event’ (EHE) is significantly more likely be paired with institutional actions as part hazard planning, while ‘urban island’ (UHI) green grey infrastructure interventions general planning. Disparity thermal comfort framings related any solutions used least. Plan type, followed by environmental networks (e.g. C40, Urban Sustainability Directors Network, Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities), variation plan content; social context do not. Findings point emergence two independent systems, EHE UHI, several gaps planning: integration, specificity, solutions, disparity, economy, comfort.
Language: Английский
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One Earth, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 6(6), P. 738 - 750
Published: June 1, 2023
The combined impact of urbanization-induced warming and drying on large-scale heat stress disparities remains unknown, with multicity studies using satellite-derived land surface temperature as a proxy for these disparities. Here, high-resolution urban-resolving numerical model simulations 2014–2018, we find pervasive in all-sky average maximum summertime air moist metrics across US cities, higher outdoor exposure poorer primarily non-white census tracts. Ninety-four percent the urban population (228 million) live cities where burdens poor, inequities between white populations strongly associated residential segregation. Similarly, historically redlined neighborhoods show than their non-redlined counterparts, demonstrating how historical segregation relates to present-day environmental inequalities. Our results provide quantitative estimates physiologically relevant at national scale highlight potential biases when satellites these.
Language: Английский
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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 186, P. 113668 - 113668
Published: Sept. 4, 2023
Urban areas are experiencing excessive heating. Addressing the heat is a challenging but essential task where not only engineering and climatic knowledge matters also deep understanding of social economic dimensions. We synthesize state art in mitigation technologies develop an 'ITE index' framework that evaluates investment (I), time for implementation (T), effectiveness (E) candidate measures. Using this framework, we assess 247 multimeasure-centric solution sets composed all possible combinations 8 individual The multidimensional ITE index quantified based on different urban scales, levels, impact local climate zones (LCZs), professionals' perceptions using analytical hierarchy process. top 50 unique consist 4–7 measures across LCZs, with use thermally efficient buildings high-efficiency indoor cooling being two recurrent contributing to best sets. While every city varies terms its ideal sets, provide decision-making which dimensions can be integrated, understood, quantified.
Language: Английский
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Landscape and Urban Planning, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 235, P. 104750 - 104750
Published: March 18, 2023
Language: Английский
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