Developing High-Resolution Descriptions of Urban Heat Islands: A Public Health Imperative
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Empirically derived 1-m-resolution descriptions of (A) morning and (B) evening urban heat islands in Portland, Oregon, on August 25, 2014.Temperatures were recorded in 1-hour periods at 6 AM and 7 PM.In the morning, low-lying vegetation cover had the strongest effect on temperature; in the evening, temperatures were most strongly affected by variation in building heights.High-resolution data sets such as those used here can inform preparation for extreme heat events and public health interventions.
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Characteristics of the built environment create temperature differentials between urban and surrounding rural areas and also contribute to intracity temperature variation.
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- Authors
- Voelkel, J., Shandas, V., & Haggerty, B.
- Affiliations
- Portland State University (US)
- Multnomah County Health Department (US)
- Corresponding author
- Voelkel, Jackson
- Venue
- Preventing Chronic Disease
- Published
- 2016-09-15
- Volume
- 13
- Pages
- E129-E129
- ISSN
- 1545-1151 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5027848
- OpenAlex
- W2518436865
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 1.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- public-domain
- Locations
- Preventing Chronic Disease (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PDXScholar (Portland State University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1444755)
- Portland State University
- U.S. Forest Service
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Keywords
- urban heat island, public health, chronic disease prevention, heat exposure, environmental health
- MeSH terms
- Machine Learning, Cities, Hot Temperature, Humans, Oregon, Public Health, Models, Statistical, Geographic Information Systems
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