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Special Issue
Urban Heat Island Effect
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2022 (Open) Submit Now
Guest Editor
Anthony Brazel, PhD
Emeritus Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA;
Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA;
Urban Climate Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-5302, USA
Research interests: Physical geography; climatology; urban systems; climate change and adaptation; atmospheric processes; climate change and adaptation impacts; microclimate; urban climate; climate ecosystem; urban heat island; urban environments; regional climate change; sustainability
About This Topic
The “Urban Heat Island Effect” is the tendency of urban areas to experience higher temperatures compared to their rural environs within the scales of the surface, canopy layer to the urban boundary layer. This phenomenon is mainly due to specific characteristics of the urban landscape, including building density, size and orientation, open space configuration, the use of heat absorbing construction materials, and anthropogenic emissions. Determining the factors that contribute to UHI spatio-temporal development and how to address, mitigate, and adapt to urban climate have gained special attention from the perspective of climatology, environmental sciences, engineering, material design, building design, energy fuels, medicine, urban planning, and urban design. There remain many gaps in our scientific knowledge and this special issue would especially encourage, but not restrict, submissions to: the urban effect on precipitation, observations made within the canopy and Mixed Layer of the urban boundary layer, approaches to consistent physically-based descriptions of urban landscapes, and analyses of especially rapidly growing cities such as in the tropics.
Publication
Experience with Active Learning: The Charleston, SC, USA Urban Heat Island EffectAbstract The urban heat island (UHI) effect is not well understood, especially within the cityscape. This editorial is from the perspective of an undergraduate student Cadet Emma Larsen, as she comes to understand the UHI through mentorship from professors Simon Ghanat and Scott Curtis, personal experiences as a cadet at a military academy in Charlesto [...] |
Degree-hours and Degree-days in Coastal Mediterranean Cities, Patras and Kalamata, Greeceby
Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos
,
Athanassios Giannopoulos
,
Yannis Caouris
,
Manolis Souliotis
and
Mattheos Santamouris
Abstract The hourly ambient air temperature information was analyzed for two Greek coastal Mediterranean cities: Patras (for the entire 2018 year) with ten urban and one rural stations, and Kalamata (for the entire 2019 and 2020 years) with eight urban and two rural stations. The heating and cooling Degree Hours (DH) and Degree Days (DD [...] |
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