Strong contributions of local background climate to urban heat islands

By Lei Zhao, Xuhui Lee, Ronald B. Smith, K. Oleson. Nature, 2014

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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Impact of urbanization on US surface climate (2015, background): “…from changes in surface albedo (e.g., Akbari 2002) and its effect on the surface energy partitioning; while the fourth impact is associated with a modification of the surface roughness and its implication for the surface turbulent fluxes and diffusion of heat (e.g., Zhao et al 2014, Oke 1988).”
Climate–vegetation control on the diurnal and seasonal variations of surface urban heat islands in China (2016, background): “Worse still, these impacts can be more serious under a changing climate (Patz et al 2005, Li and Bou-Zeid 2013, IPCC 2014, Zhao et al 2014, Li et al 2015).”
Interactions between urban heat islands and heat waves (2018, positive): “Total UHI s ( Δ T s ) can be approximated by linear supposition of various biophysical contributions: urban-rural changes in radiation balance, aerodynamic resistance, Bowen ratio, heat storage and anthropogenic heat (Zhao et al 2014).”
Disproportionately higher exposure to urban heat in lower-income neighborhoods: a multi-city perspective (2019, background): “…due to different reasons—difference in evaporation, convection, and shortwave reflectively between urban and rural areas during the day and differential release of stored heat and anthropogenic heat flux at night, among other factors (Peng et al 2011, Zhao et al 2014, Chakraborty et al 2017).”
A simplified urban-extent algorithm to characterize surface urban heat islands on a global scale and examine vegetation control on their spatiotemporal variability (2019, background): “There is some evidence that the surface UHI intensity is influenced by the background climate of the city (Zhao et al., 2014).”
The Impact of Temperature on Productivity and Labor Supply: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing (2015, background): “Much less prior evidence exists on absenteeism, although Zivin and Neidell (2014) find that people in the United States allocate less time to work in exposed industries when temperatures are very high.”