Heat Islands
Threat of attacks of Ixodes ricinus ticks (Ixodida: Ixodidae) and Lyme borreliosis within urban heat islands in south western Poland
... Results: In total, 2061 I. ricinus ticks, including 606 nymphs and 1455 adults, were collected in the study area. The number and activity of the ticks varied during the collection in the different sites. In the urban ...
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Assessment of the Effect of Neyshabur Green Spatial Configuration on the Temperature of Land Surface and Heat Islands
... Spatial characteristics and configuration of green space spots in the urban en- vironment have certain effects on UHI [13]. Composition of the landscape di- rectly involves the LST by affecting surface physical ...
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Contribution of Landsat TM Data for the Detection ofUrban Heat Islands Areas Case of Casablanca
... of heat islands in the region of Ca- sablanca as the case of the heat generated by human ac- tivities, for example the heat generated by transport, by commercial activities and by industrial ...
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Green Roof Methodology: Remedy for Urban Heat Islands
... urban heat islands necessitates the demand to adopt such alternative roofing system which will prove favorable and effective to mitigate such global issues of environmental ...
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Investigating important urban characteristics in the formation of urban heat islands: a machine learning approach
... The warming trend of US cities becomes significant since the late 1970s and its rate and magnitude of this trend severed during the late 1990s [1–3]. Land use changes due to urbanization can modify the energy balance in ...
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Environmental and Spatial Assessment of Urban Heat Islands in Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt
... Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) and assess the associated environmental characteristics in Qalyubia Governorate using remote sensing and GIS integrated with a field ...as heat island ...
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Investigating the spatial variation of heat Islands of Tehran
... warm heat Islands (at the significantly level of %99) were only limited to East parts in Khorbiabanak station which covered ...cold heat Islands (at the significantly level of 99 percent) were ...
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Development of an operational modeling system for urban heat islands: an application to Athens, Greece
... Numerical modeling is considered to be an appropriate tool for studying the UHI effect, showing a wide area of successful applications (Rizwan et al., 2009). In particular, meso-scale atmospheric models have been ...
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Measurement Technologies for Urban Heat Islands
... There are various satellite sensors which can be used to study or calculate the land surface temperature, the thermal sensors are used to map the thermal attributes of the area. These thermal sensors with remote sensing ...
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Satellite Image Fusion to Detect Changing Surface Permeability and Emerging Urban Heat Islands in a Fast-Growing City
... Rapid and extensive urbanization has adversely impacted humans and ecological entities in the recent decades through a decrease in surface permeability and the emergence of urban heat islands (UHI). While ...
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Impact of urban heat islands on the thermal comfort and cooling energy demand of artificial islands-A case study of AMWAJ Islands in Bahrain
... Man-made islands, created by reclaiming land from the sea, have become more prevalent in the Gulf Corporation Council countries (GCCC) in recent years as demand for additional land to develop ...such ...
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Visualising a comparison of simulated urban heat islands: a case study of two Slovakian cities
... Abstract: Temperature increases in cities affects inhabitants’ quality of life, justifying the extent of research focusing on identifying, analysing, and assessing the relationship between the density of urban fabric ...
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A comparison between London and Baghdad surface urban heat islands and possible engineering mitigation solutions
... To counterbalance the influence of the UHI, there are two main mitigation strategies as described by Akbari and Kolokotsa (2016). The first strategy is increasing the solar reflectance, to reduce the amount of solar ...
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Climatology of urban environments: Heat islands, climate change, air pollution: physical, chemical and biological indicators
... Childhood cancer in the white population around the Sutro Tower in San Francisco shows a remarkable match with the declining and undulating RF radiation pattern from the high powered[r] ...
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Heat and dry islands observed over Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2012
... Abstract Recent population increases in urban areas of Asian countries have extended artificial land cover, increased energy consumption, and caused various problems. Higher air temperatures over urban areas (heat ...
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Landscape Changes and their Impacts on Land Surface
... Their Impact on Surface Urban Heat Islands: Case Study of Kandy City, Sri Lanka.. Google Erath Engine, Landsat collection structure[r] ...
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Prevalence of heartworm in dogs and cats of Madrid, Spain
... Results: Prevalence of D. immitis in the canine population of Madrid was 3%, showing an increase in comparison to previous data. The presence of heartworm in the city centre could be influenced by the presence of Urban ...
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Perspectives on synoptic climate classification and its role in interdisciplinary research
... numerous research topics including human health, urban heat islands, tree growth, wildlife behavior, and climate.. change, and there are some obvious areas of overlap between these study[r] ...
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2019_Soare.pdf
... In addition to the original Marshallese communities formed decades ago, there have also been large waves of Marshallese migrating to the United States in recent years. From 2000 to 2010 alone, the number of Marshallese ...
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Paleomagnetic determination of paleolatitude and rotation of Bering Island (Komandorsky Islands) Russia: comparison with rotations in the Aleutian Islands and Kamchatka
... Komandorski islands were part of the forearc lo- cated east-southeast of their current locations with respect to North ...Komandorsky islands started to move westwards and ...
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