Urban Outdoor Heat Exposure

This project firstly conducted a large-scale human outdoor heat exposure modeling at the city level and mapped the distribution of the averaged mean radiant ...

Heat Islands and Equity | US EPA

These neighborhood-level hotspots are called “intra-urban” heat islands. Intra-urban heat islands are caused by the uneven, inequitable spread of landcovers in ...

Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across ...

Urban heat stress poses a major risk to public health. Case studies of individual cities suggest that heat exposure, ...

Mapping urban outdoor heat exposure in US cities

In this talk, I will talk about my recent work on urban microclimate modeling based on high resolution 3D urban models to map the finest ever (1 meter) urban ...

Investigating the spatial distribution of resident's outdoor heat ...

Urban microclimate modeling was applied at city scale to examine thermal inequity. ... The mean radiant temperature was computed to indicate human heat exposure.

Assessing and forecasting collective urban heat exposure with smart ...

Due to population growth, climate change, and the urban heat island effect, heat exposure is becoming an important issue faced by urban ...

Global urban population exposure to extreme heat - PNAS

Total urban warming elevated the annual increase in exposure by 52% compared to urban population growth alone. Exposure trajectories increased for 46% of urban ...

Lower Urban Humidity Moderates Outdoor Heat Stress - AGU Journals

Lower humidity and higher air temperature in cities compared to rural backgrounds compensate for each other to moderate daytime outdoor heat ...

Overview: Working in Outdoor and Indoor Heat Environments - OSHA

Hazardous heat exposure can occur indoors or outdoors, and can occur during any season if the conditions are right, not only during heat waves. The following is ...

Dynamic estimation of urban heat exposure for outdoor jogging

We proposed an analytical framework to investigate the differences in individual heat exposure among different motion, temporal, and spatial jogging patterns.

Award # 2314709 - Pedestrian level urban outdoor heat exposure ...

This project uses urban microclimate modeling and geospatial technologies to estimate and map the urban heat distribution at a spatial resolution of 1m and at ...

A Heat Emergency: Urban Heat Exposure and Access to Refuge in ...

Prolonged and acute exposure to high heat can cause heat-related illnesses, such as heat stroke or heat exhaustion, and can trigger life- ...

GPU parallel computing for mapping urban outdoor heat exposure

Results show that the GPU-accelerated algorithms can reduce the time consumption of SVF computing by more than 99% using one NVIDIA GPU.

New Nationwide Modeling Points to Widespread Racial Disparities ...

The study's authors aimed to produce a more useful nationwide estimate of urban heat stress—a more accurate account of how our body responds to ...

Heat exposure during outdoor activities in the US varies significantly ...

Environmental heat is a growing public health concern in cities. Urbanization and global climate change threaten to exacerbate heat as an ...

Dangerous urban heat exposure has tripled since the 1980s, with ...

Extreme urban heat exposure has dramatically increased since the early 1980s, with the total exposure tripling over the past 35 years.

Risk of Dangerous Heat Exposure Is Growing Quickly in Cities

Graphic shows key data points for 10 cities with the largest annual increases in extreme heat. Amanda Montañez; Source: “Global Urban Population ...

Lower Urban Humidity Moderates Outdoor Heat Stress

outdoor heat stress within and across satellite-derived urban clusters. We consider several metrics, both empir- ical and thermodynamic, for estimating ...

Sensitivity and vulnerability to summer heat extremes in major cities ...

Many cities are experiencing increases in extreme heat because of global temperature rise combined with the urban heat island effect.

Residential segregation and outdoor urban moist heat stress ...

We show pervasive income- and race-based inequities in summertime air temperature and heat stress in US cities, providing national-scale evidence of heat- ...