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Urban heat island modeling for tropical climates

Khan, Ansar / Chatterjee, Soumendu / Wang, Yupeng

Front Cover -- Urban Heat Island Modeling for Tropical Climates -- Urban Heat Island Modeling for Tropical Climates -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Summary -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Mathematical Notations -- 1 -- Context and background of urban heat island -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Describing the review of literature -- 1.2.1 Geography of urban heat island studies -- 1.2.2 Evaluating the primary literatures -- 1.2.2.1 Thermal remote sensing and urban heat island research -- 1.2.2.2 Urban heat island factors and drivers

1.2.2.3 City-scale urban heat island research -- 1.3 Indian scenario -- 1.4 Case study: tropical Kolkata -- 1.5 Conceptual framework of urban heat island -- 1.6 Purpose of this book -- 1.7 Research premises -- 1.8 Book design and methodological overview -- 1.9 Limitations -- 1.10 Organization of the book -- 1.11 Conclusions -- References -- 2 -- Characterizing thermal fields and evaluating UHI effects -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Approaches to LST modeling -- 2.3 Database and image preprocessing -- 2.3.1 Landsat 5 thematic mapper -- 2.3.2 Landsat 8 thermal infrared sensor

2.6.2 Seasonal characteristics of thermal field -- 2.6.3 Evolution of thermal landscape -- 2.7 Conclusions -- References -- 3 -- UHI drivers and mapping the urban thermal environment -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Urban heat island drivers and preparation of spatial database -- 3.2.1 Socioeconomic drivers -- 3.2.1.1 Population distribution -- 3.2.1.2 Land use and land cover -- 3.2.2 Structural drivers -- 3.2.2.1 Building materials -- 3.2.2.2 Building height -- 3.2.2.3 Building age -- 3.2.2.4 Building association -- 3.2.3 Radiative drivers -- 3.2.3.1 Building roof -- 3.2.3.2 Building roof reflectance

3.2.3.3 Road pavements -- 3.2.4 Accuracy assessment -- 3.3 Factor-based urban heat island modeling -- 3.3.1 Preparation of urban heat island inventory map and training and validation data set -- 3.3.2 Analytical hierarchy process model and urban heat island zonation -- 3.3.3 Kernel logistic regression model and urban heat island zonation -- 3.3.4 Support vector machine model and urban heat island zonation -- 3.3.5 Spatial multicriteria evaluation model and urban heat island zonation -- 3.4 Model evaluation, assessment, and performance -- 3.4.1 Comparison of city-scale urban heat island models

Urban Heat Island Modeling for Tropical Climates takes into account the different urban physics in tropical environments, presenting a way of UHI scaling for tropical cities. Topics include measuring, modeling and proper mitigation strategies, which account for the surface energy balance of tropics. Tropical cities are more susceptible to the effects of projected global warming because of conditions in tropical climates and the rapid growth of so many cities in this zone. The need for research on measuring, modeling and mitigation of UHI effects in tropical cities is of growing importance. This book walks through the basics of Urban Heat Islands, including causes, measurement and analysis then expands upon issues as well as the novel techniques that can be used to address issues specific to the region