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1. HEAT ISLANDS: UNDERSTANDING AND MITIGATING HEAT IN URBAN AREAS
by GARTLAND, LISA, 1960
2008, ISBN 1844072509, Volume 9781849771559, 208
Sustainable Architecture | City and Urban Planning | Urban Design | Climate Change | Urban heat island | Urban climatology
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2. Full Text Synergistic Interactions between Urban Heat Islands and Heat Waves
: The Impact in Cities Is Larger than the Sum of Its Parts
by Dan Li and Elie Bou-Zeid
Journal of applied meteorology and climatology, ISSN 1558-8424, 9/2013, Volume 52, Issue 9, pp. 2051 - 2064
Heat | Urban heat islands | Rural areas | Urban areas | Humidity | Wind velocity | Surface temperature | Metropolitan areas | Cities | Waves | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | Physical Sciences | Science & Technology | Earth, ocean, space | External geophysics | Convection, turbulence, diffusion. Boundary layer structure and dynamics | Exact sciences and technology | Meteorology | Bgi / Prodig | Physical geography | Climatology | Local climates and microclimates | Measurement | Atmospheric temperature | Analysis | Environmental aspects | Climatic changes | Research | Evaporation | Climate change | Temperature | Hypotheses | Cooling | Islands | Rural | Ambient temperature | Strategy | Heat stress
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3. Tropical urban heat islands
: climate, buildings and greenery
by Wong, Nyuk Hien
2009, Spon research, ISBN 0415411041, Volume 9780203931295, viii, 259 p., [8] p. of plates
Building Services Engineering | Building and Construction | Green Construction | Tropics - Climate | Human ecology | Buildings | Urban ecology | Vegetation and climate | Urban climatology
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4. Full Text Using cool pavements as a mitigation strategy to fight urban heat island—A review of the actual developments
by Santamouris, M
Renewable & sustainable energy reviews, ISSN 1364-0321, 10/2013, Volume 26, pp. 224 - 240
Cool materials | Cool pavements | Permeable pavements | Reflective pavements | Mitigation technologies | Heat Island | Science & Technology - Other Topics | Green & Sustainable Science & Technology | Technology | Energy & Fuels | Science & Technology | Transportation infrastructure | Road construction. Pavements. Maintenance | Applied sciences | General | Buildings. Public works | Exact sciences and technology | Pavements | Usage | Urban heat islands | Analysis | Urban climatology
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5. Full Text Approaches to study Urban Heat Island – Abilities and limitations
by Mirzaei, Parham A and Haghighat, Fariborz
Building and environment, ISSN 0360-1323, 2010, Volume 45, Issue 10, pp. 2192 - 2201
Urban Heat Island | Outdoor air quality | Observation | Countermeasure | Simulation | Engineering | Engineering, Environmental | Technology | Construction & Building Technology | Engineering, Civil | Science & Technology | Structural analysis. Stresses | Buildings. Public works | Urban development | Exact sciences and technology | Applied sciences | General | Computation methods. Tables. Charts | Climate | Computer simulation | Urban heat islands | Ponds | Strategy | Outdoor | Computational efficiency | Monitoring | Computer programs
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6. Full Text On the impact of urban heat island and global warming on the power demand and electricity consumption of buildings—A review
by Santamouris, M and Cartalis, C and Synnefa, A and Kolokotsa, D
Energy and buildings, ISSN 0378-7788, 07/2015, Volume 98, pp. 119 - 124
Global warming | Electricity consumption | Urban heat island | Overheating | Engineering | Technology | Construction & Building Technology | Engineering, Civil | Energy & Fuels | Science & Technology | Environmental aspects | Air pollution | Urban heat islands | Analysis | Urban climatology
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7. Full Text THIS – Tool for Heat Island Simulation: A GIS extension model to calculate urban heat island intensity based on urban geometry
by Nakata-Osaki, Camila Mayumi and Souza, Léa Cristina Lucas and Rodrigues, Daniel Souto
Computers, environment and urban systems, ISSN 0198-9715, 01/2018, Volume 67, pp. 157 - 168
Urban geometry | Extension model | Geographic information system | Algorithm | Urban heat island | Geography | Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications | Social Sciences | Environmental Sciences & Ecology | Science & Technology | Environmental Studies | Operations Research & Management Science | Engineering | Regional & Urban Planning | Engineering, Environmental | Life Sciences & Biomedicine | Technology | Computer Science | Public Administration | Algorithms | Urban heat islands | Urban climatology | Geographic information systems | Facades | Computer simulation | Urban areas | Rural areas | Roughness | Tools | Satellite navigation systems | Studies | Heat | Simulation | Mathematical models | Street canyons | Trends
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8. Full Text Strong contributions of local background climate to urban heat islands
by Zhao, Lei and Lee, Xuhui and Smith, Ronald B and Oleson, Keith
Nature (London), ISSN 0028-0836, 2014, Volume 511, Issue 7508, pp. 216 - 219
Science & Technology - Other Topics | Multidisciplinary Sciences | Science & Technology | Models, Theoretical | Climate | Environmental Monitoring | Humans | Population Density | Humidity | Cities | Hot Temperature | North America | Meteorological research | Research | Urban heat islands | Urban climatology | Heat | Cooling | Efficiency | Urban areas | Vegetation | Index Medicus
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9. Full Text Interactions between urban heat islands and heat waves
by Zhao, Lei and Oppenheimer, Michael and Zhu, Qing and Baldwin, Jane W and Ebi, Kristie L and Bou-Zeid, Elie and Guan, Kaiyu and Liu, Xu and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Environmental research letters, ISSN 1748-9318, 10/2017, Volume 13, Issue 3, p. 34003
surface evaporation | urban heat island | heat wave | surface biophysical processes | climate change | Environmental Sciences & Ecology | Physical Sciences | Life Sciences & Biomedicine | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | Science & Technology | Environmental Sciences | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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