[PDF] Top 20 Urban Heat Island: Causes, Effects and Mitigation Measures - A Review

... Shade trees are those with a huge canopy and can provide protection to houses and pedestrians from direct sunlight keeping them comparatively cool. Shade trees also help to cut down the temperature by evapotranspiration ... See full document

... of heat exchanger get influenced by fouling, the process stream and process parameters are influenced by fouling ...fouling causes huge economic loss due to its impact on initial cost on heat ... See full document

... of mitigation measures to be adopted include; (i)Trimming wastes generated from homes, these wastes (garbage) are disposed and buried in landfills which produces methane, a strong ... See full document

... in urban structure and artificial exhaust heat as causes for UHI, while the Japanese Meteorological Agency (2007) [4] suggested changes in land use, the effects of buildings and the ... See full document

... 2015). Mitigation measures and adaptation strategies to buffer the impacts of climate change on Vietnam are therefore extremely essential (Schmidt-Thomé et ...and mitigation mea- sures are ... See full document

... MUKLIMO_3 was used in this study for the purposes of UHI modelling because its development and application suits Central European conditions. This three- dimensional model was developed for micro-scale applications aimed ... See full document

... established urban heat island hotspot, Ingram Street is home to numerous architectural styles, construction types, building functions and cladding types and was therefore considered to be ... See full document

... of urban heat island is that wherever high population and built up area exists, tem- peratures are higher and thus urban heat island effect is ...estimate urban ... See full document

... The creation of comfortable living space from a thermal point of view has become a necessity in today microclimate conditions [4]. The aim is to found the optimal way to mitigate the climatic change, and the urbanization ... See full document

... Since weather stations, tide and river gages, and other indicators (high water mark surveys) are still not adequately distributed to give a complete picture of tropical cyclone events (Neidoroda et al. 2007), remotely ... See full document

... Abstract. Urban areas are typically warmer than rural ...Rapid urban expansion in dense cities bares direct impact on surface and air temperature patterns within street canyons; a phenomena which is known ... See full document

... of urban areas is an important factor contributing to intra-urban temperature variation below roof level (Oke, 1981; Eliasson, ...of urban ISSN: 0976-3376 ... See full document

... the heat island [11]. Urban man has altered the roughness of the earth’s surface changing small features, such as trees, bushes, houses, the spaces between ...his urban constructions, he ... See full document

... Keyword: Urban Heat Island, urban street canyon, building simulation, Computational Fluid Dynamics, road solar collector, heat transfer... Previous related works have emphasised on the s[r] ... See full document

... Table 2 lists the modelled variables and their correspond- ing observations in the model evaluation. The observation datasets are the point data except for the Moderate Reso- lution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) ... See full document

... More specifically, the MM5 forecasted 3.0 m/s southwesterly winds over Central Manhattan, while the Central Park ASOS showed winds out of the west-southwest at 3.6 m/s. However, the ARPS simulation forecasted winds out ... See full document

... the urban area of Beijing (China), stating that the concentration of vegetation spots led to higher LST, while the size of green areas had no effect, and the spatial con- figuration exerted a significant effect on ... See full document

... called urban heat island (UHI) has a number of impacts on air quality, water demand and ...for urban centers devoting efforts to adaptation to reduce the risks of direct and indirect impacts ... See full document

... change mitigation measures and climate change adaptation measures and heat stress however is not yet clear and remains difficult to quantify ("Tackling climate change crucial to EU citizen ... See full document

... of heat and water vapor and a Bowen ratio to calculate the energy balance of canopy vertical layer ...Sensible heat from the soil and lower part of tree leaves could increase the latent heat of the ... See full document