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Urban Heat Island and Building Energy Sustainability

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 6572

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Rui Zhu

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Systems Science Department, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Fusionopolis, Singapore 138632, Singapore
Interests: urban heat island; solar cities; urban mobility
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Prof. Dr. Mansing Wong

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Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Interests: urban heat island effect; urban environmental quality; landslides; vegetation and ecosystems; spectral mixture analysis; aerosol retrieval; air quality monitoring; water vapor retrieval
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Dr. Sawaid Abbas

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1. Center for Geographic Information System, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
2. Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
3. Remote Sensing, GIS and Climatic Research Lab, National Center of GIS and Space Applications, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Interests: spatial data science; digital technologies; smart sensing; earth observation; environmental monitoring; landscape ecology; tropical forest ecology; urban ecology; smart cities; urban climate; climate change; vegetation-climate interaction; land-cover land-use change; drought; cropland; air pollution; water quality; cloud computing; machine learning; big data for SDGs
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Dr. Jinxin Yang

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School of Geography and Remote Sensing, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
Interests: thermal infrared remote sensing; quantitative remote sensing urban heat island

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit a paper to a Special Issue on “Urban Heat Island and Building Energy Sustainability” in the open access journal Sustainability.

The urban heat island (UHI) is a special environmental phenomenon in which temperatures (e.g., land surface temperatures, or near surface air temperatures) in the urban area are significantly higher than its surrounding rural areas. Scientific evidence has proved that UHIs can cause many adverse effects in society. Thus, this Special Issue aims to report the most recent studies related to UHIs, for creating a comfortable and livable urban environment. We warmly welcome original, high quality and unpublished manuscripts coming from both academia and industry.

This Special Issue will focus on, but not limited to, the following topics:

  1. Estimating land surface temperatures or near-ground air temperatures;
  2. Modeling spatio-temporal heat sources, e.g., anthropogenic heat and latent heat;
  3. Modeling dynamic evolutions of UHIs;
  4. Investigating formation mechanisms;
  5. Forecasting UHIs in the current or reformed urban areas;
  6. Proposing UHIs mitigation strategies;
  7. Energy interactions with UHIs, e.g., solar energy, distributed solar PV farming, building/transport energy consumptions;
  8. UHIs related to public health.

We look forward to receiving original, high-quality unpublished manuscripts from different professions and expertise.

Dr. Rui Zhu
Dr. Man-Sing Wong
Dr. Sawaid Abbas
Dr. Jinxin Yang
Guest Editors

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • urban heat islands
  • anthropogenic heat
  • building energy
  • solar energy
  • urban landscape
  • urban environment
  • urban planning
  • geographical information science
  • remote sensing

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Potential of Nature-Based Solutions to Diminish Urban Heat Island Effects and Improve Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Summer: Case Study of Matadero Madrid
by Francesca Olivieri, Louise-Nour Sassenou and Lorenzo Olivieri
Sustainability 2024, 16(7), 2778; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16072778 - 27 Mar 2024
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Urban heat island effects and climate change are climatic phenomena responsible for periods of extreme heat in summer which severely impact citizens’ well-being and health. In this alarming context which questions the livability of our cities, Nature-Based Solutions (NBSs) are considered an unavoidable [...] Read more.
Urban heat island effects and climate change are climatic phenomena responsible for periods of extreme heat in summer which severely impact citizens’ well-being and health. In this alarming context which questions the livability of our cities, Nature-Based Solutions (NBSs) are considered an unavoidable component of the complex strategy in diminishing urban temperatures. The present work aims to show the relevance of NBSs in urban temperature regulation through the estimation of their potential to improve outdoor thermal comfort of the heritage site Matadero Madrid. To this end, this article evaluates the effects of a scenario combining different solutions including NBSs and identifies which solutions are the most effective. The results show that this scenario has an impact on direct solar radiation and wind speed but does not affect air temperature and relative humidity. Furthermore, even if this scenario combining a fabric canopy, tree canopy, and green area significantly improves thermal conditions, it does not allow us to reach an optimal level of thermal comfort for visitors. To consider the implementation of more meaningful interventions, existing legal, administrative, and cultural limitations of the case study should be omitted. This would enable us to identify which restrictions could be adapted, thus unlocking the adaptation potential of Matadero Madrid. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Heat Island and Building Energy Sustainability)
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Effects of Upward Reflective Film Applied to Window Glass on Indoor and Outdoor Thermal Environments in a Mid-Latitude City
by Sae Kyogoku and Hideki Takebayashi
Sustainability 2023, 15(4), 3848; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043848 - 20 Feb 2023
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The effect of upward reflective film applied to a window on the thermal environment inside and outside the window was investigated, considering the reflection and transmission characteristics depending on the angle of incident solar radiation. In terms of controlling the amount of solar [...] Read more.
The effect of upward reflective film applied to a window on the thermal environment inside and outside the window was investigated, considering the reflection and transmission characteristics depending on the angle of incident solar radiation. In terms of controlling the amount of solar radiation on a building’s windows, it is sufficient if the reflected solar radiation returns upward and does not need to be retroreflected in the azimuthal direction. Therefore, in this study, only the incident angle was considered and treated in two dimensions. The amount of incident solar radiation on the vertical façade is greater around 9:00 and around 16:00. Therefore, it is important to take measures in the morning for east-facing windows and in the afternoon for west-facing windows. The indoor MRT in front of upward reflective film is lower than in front of a transparent window due to lower transmittance. The outdoor MRT in front of upward reflective film is suppressed to the same level as in front of a transparent window, because the downward reflectance does not increase as much as in transparent windows. Upward reflective films applied to windows can improve the indoor thermal environment without worsening the outdoor thermal environment compared to thermal barrier films. Full article
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A Multitemporal and Multilevel Land Surface Temperature Regional Attribute Change Analysis in Henan, China, Using MODIS Imagery
by Zongze Zhao, Bingke Sun, Gang Cheng, Cheng Wang, Na Yang, Hongtao Wang and Xiaojie Tang
Sustainability 2022, 14(16), 10071; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610071 - 14 Aug 2022
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Temperature is an important aspect of land–atmosphere studies and plays a key role in urban environmental change. With the continuous development of satellite remote sensing sensors, remote sensing technology has become an important means of obtaining large-scale land surface temperature (LST) data. LST [...] Read more.
Temperature is an important aspect of land–atmosphere studies and plays a key role in urban environmental change. With the continuous development of satellite remote sensing sensors, remote sensing technology has become an important means of obtaining large-scale land surface temperature (LST) data. LST can be calculated from the thermal infrared band data of remote sensing images to analyze changes in temperature and determine its relationship with the surface type. In this study, a multitemporal multilevel (MTML) method for analyzing remotely sensed LST data is presented that analyzes attribute changes and correlations of remotely sensed LST data in different periods and at different temperature levels. First, the LST data were obtained under the same climatic conditions at different times, and the influence of climatic conditions on the LST data was excluded. Threshold superposition analysis was then performed on the temperature data to generate temperature-connected regions of different levels, and a tree structure was constructed. Each node in the tree structure represented a connected region. Finally, the attribute information of different connected regions at different levels was calculated, and the attribute changes and correlations between different times and levels were analyzed. In this study, five MODIS LST datasets from 15 May 2006, 1 May 2010, 7 May 2014, 29 April 2017, and 8 May 2021 in Henan Province of China were obtained, and MTML analysis was carried out. The experimental results showed that a negative correlation exists between temperature and the vegetation index, while a positive correlation exists between temperature and the built-up index. However, with an increase in the temperature level, the correlation between temperature and the surface feature type index decreased. In addition, there were more concentrated high-temperature areas in the northern, central, and western regions of Henan Province and lower temperatures in the eastern and southern regions. Full article
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