Urban Overheating - Progress on Mitigation Science and Engineering Applications

The combination of global warming and urban sprawl is the origin of the most hazardous climate change effect detected at urban level: Urban Heat Island, representing the urban overheating respect to the countryside surrounding the city. This book includes 18 papers representing the state of the art...

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air temperature
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urban energy balance
road lighting
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material characterization
urban climate
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air and surface temperature measurements
cool pavements
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empirical line method
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urban cooling
multifractal analysis
urban heat mitigation
genetic algorithm
heat stress
“hot spots”
subtropical climate
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building energy performance
multiple linear regression
built-up area
thermal emittance
urban morphology
cost-optimal analysis
building retrofit
sustainability
mitigation strategies
luminance coefficient
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structure functions analysis
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urban open space
building scale
meteorological modeling
shading
surface albedo
summer heat stress
cool materials
land cover fraction
micro-climate simulations
energy simulation
urban microclimate
urban development
Physiologically Equivalent Temperature
cool facades
green area
ageing
MODIS downscaling
spectral reflectance
fine-resolution meteorological modeling
urban areas
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