Topic · Urban Heat Island Mitigation
Most cited papers in Urban Heat Island Mitigation
What are the most cited papers in Urban Heat Island Mitigation?
The most cited paper in Urban Heat Island Mitigation is "WorldClim 2: new 1‐km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas" (Stephen E. Fick, Robert J. Hijmans, 2017), with 17,637 citations. Next come "NDWI—A normalized difference water index for remote sensing of vegetation liquid water from space" (7,034) and "The energetic basis of the urban heat island" (4,665).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,160 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WorldClim 2: new 1‐km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas Stephen E. Fick, Robert J. Hijmans · International Journal of Climatology | 15 May 2017 | 17,637 |
| 2 | NDWI—A normalized difference water index for remote sensing of vegetation liquid water from space Bo‐Cai Gao · Remote Sensing of Environment | Dec 1996 | 7,034 |
| 3 | The energetic basis of the urban heat island T. R. Oke · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1982 | 4,665 |
| 4 | Local Climate Zones for Urban Temperature Studies Iain D. Stewart, T. R. Oke · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 25 May 2012 | 4,473 |
| 5 | Passive radiative cooling below ambient air temperature under direct sunlight Aaswath Pattabhi Raman, Marc Abou Anoma, Linxiao Zhu et al. · Nature | Nov 2014 | 3,600 |
| 6 | Two decades of urban climate research: a review of turbulence, exchanges of energy and water, and the urban heat island A. John Arnfield · International Journal of Climatology | 2003 | 3,572 |
| 7 | A remote sensing surface energy balance algorithm for land (SEBAL). 1. Formulation W.G.M. Bastiaanssen, Massimo Menenti, Reinder A. Feddes et al. · Journal of Hydrology | Dec 1998 | 3,177 |
| 8 | Summary of current radiometric calibration coefficients for Landsat MSS, TM, ETM+, and EO-1 ALI sensors Gyanesh Chander, Brian L. Markham, Dennis L. Helder · Remote Sensing of Environment | 27 Feb 2009 | 3,131 |
| 9 | Urban greening to cool towns and cities: A systematic review of the empirical evidence Diana E. Bowler, Lisette M Buyung-Ali, Teri Knight et al. · Landscape and Urban Planning | 2 Jul 2010 | 3,066 |
| 10 | Ecosystem services in urban areas Per Bolund, Sven Hunhammar · Ecological Economics | May 1999 | 2,938 |
| 11 | Hyperspectral vegetation indices and novel algorithms for predicting green LAI of crop canopies: Modeling and validation in the context of precision agriculture D. Haboudane · Remote Sensing of Environment | 6 Mar 2004 | 2,646 |
| 12 | Estimation of land surface temperature–vegetation abundance relationship for urban heat island studies Qihao Weng, Dengsheng Lu, Jacquelyn Schubring · Remote Sensing of Environment | 19 Dec 2003 | 2,607 |
| 13 | Exploring pathways linking greenspace to health: Theoretical and methodological guidance Iana Markevych, Julia Schoierer, Terry Hartig et al. · Environmental Research | 30 Jun 2017 | 2,550 |
| 14 | City size and the urban heat island T. R. Oke · Atmospheric Environment (1967) | Aug 1973 | 2,539 |
| 15 | The physiological equivalent temperature - a universal index for the biometeorological assessment of the thermal environment P. Höppe · International Journal of Biometeorology | 25 Oct 1999 | 2,434 |
| 16 | Air pollution removal by urban trees and shrubs in the United States David J. Nowak, Daniel E. Crane, Jack C. Stevens · Urban forestry & urban greening | 10 Feb 2006 | 2,432 |
| 17 | PROSPECT: A model of leaf optical properties spectra Stéphane Jacquemoud, Frédéric Baret · Remote Sensing of Environment | Nov 1990 | 2,410 |
| 18 | Impact of urbanization and land-use change on climate Eugenia Kalnay, Ming Cai · Nature | 28 May 2003 | 2,390 |
| 19 | Land surface temperature retrieval from LANDSAT TM 5 José A. Sobrino, Juan Carlos Jimenez-Munoz, Leonardo Paolini · Remote Sensing of Environment | Apr 2004 | 2,369 |
| 20 | Satellite-derived land surface temperature: Current status and perspectives Zhao-Liang Li, Bo‐Hui Tang, Hua Bing Wu et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | 9 Jan 2013 | 2,300 |
| 21 | Object-based cloud and cloud shadow detection in Landsat imagery Zhe Zhu, Curtis E. Woodcock · Remote Sensing of Environment | 14 Dec 2011 | 2,241 |
| 22 | Hierarchically porous polymer coatings for highly efficient passive daytime radiative cooling Jyotirmoy Mandal, Yanke Fu, Adam Overvig et al. · Science | 27 Sep 2018 | 2,221 |
| 23 | Development of a two-band enhanced vegetation index without a blue band Zixiao Jiang, ALFREDO R. HUETE, K. Didan et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | 28 Jul 2008 | 2,219 |
| 24 | Novel algorithms for remote estimation of vegetation fraction Anatoly A. Gitelson, Yoram J. Kaufman, Robert James Stark et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | Apr 2002 | 2,217 |
| 25 | A narrow-waveband spectral index that tracks diurnal changes in photosynthetic efficiency John A. Gamon, Josep Peñuelas, Christopher B. Field · Remote Sensing of Environment | Jul 1992 | 2,215 |
| 26 | Global products of vegetation leaf area and fraction absorbed PAR from year one of MODIS data Ranga B. Myneni, Samuel M. Hoffman, Yuri V. Knyazikhin et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | Nov 2002 | 2,064 |
| 27 | Light scattering by leaf layers with application to canopy reflectance modeling: The SAIL model Wouter Verhoef · Remote Sensing of Environment | Oct 1984 | 2,038 |
| 28 | On the blending of the Landsat and MODIS surface reflectance: predicting daily Landsat surface reflectance Feng Gao, J. G. Masek, Mathew R. Schwaller et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 26 Jul 2006 | 1,980 |
| 29 | A review on the generation, determination and mitigation of Urban Heat Island Ahmed Memon RIZWAN, Dennis Y.C. Leung, Chun‐Ho Liu · Journal of Environmental Sciences | 2008 | 1,975 |
| 30 | Developing an adaptive model of thermal comfort and preference Richard de Dear, Gail Schiller Brager · eScholarship (California Digital Library) | 1998 | 1,946 |
| 31 | SUDS, LID, BMPs, WSUD and more – The evolution and application of terminology surrounding urban drainage Tim D. Fletcher, William D. Shuster, William F. Hunt et al. · Urban Water Journal | 23 Jul 2014 | 1,918 |
| 32 | Cooling the cities – A review of reflective and green roof mitigation technologies to fight heat island and improve comfort in urban environments M. Santamouris · Solar Energy | 30 Jul 2012 | 1,904 |
| 33 | TIMESAT—a program for analyzing time-series of satellite sensor data Per Jönsson, Lars Eklundh · Computers & Geosciences | Oct 2004 | 1,901 |
| 34 | Street design and urban canopy layer climate T. R. Oke · Energy and Buildings | Mar 1988 | 1,856 |
| 35 | Cool surfaces and shade trees to reduce energy use and improve air quality in urban areas Hashem Akbari, M. Pomerantz, Haider Taha · Solar Energy | 2001 | 1,853 |
| 36 | Adaptive thermal comfort and sustainable thermal standards for buildings Fergus Nicol, Michael Humphreys · Energy and Buildings | Jul 2002 | 1,853 |
| 37 | A generalized split-window algorithm for retrieving land-surface temperature from space Zhengming Wan, Jeff Dozier · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | Jul 1996 | 1,836 |
| 38 | A simple interpretation of the surface temperature/vegetation index space for assessment of surface moisture status Inge Sandholt, Kjeld Rasmussen, Jens Kirk Andersen · Remote Sensing of Environment | Feb 2002 | 1,804 |
| 39 | The health benefits of the great outdoors: A systematic review and meta-analysis of greenspace exposure and health outcomes Caoimhe Twohig-Bennett, Andy Jones · Environmental Research | 5 Jul 2018 | 1,765 |
| 40 | Remote sensing image-based analysis of the relationship between urban heat island and land use/cover changes Xiaoling Chen, Hongmei Zhao, Pingxiang Li et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | 11 Jul 2006 | 1,745 |
| 41 | PROSPECT+SAIL models: A review of use for vegetation characterization Stéphane Jacquemoud, Wouter Verhoef, Frédéric Baret et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | 27 Apr 2009 | 1,701 |
| 42 | An Evaluation of the Accuracy of Kernel Density Estimators for Home Range Analysis D. E. Seaman, Roger A. Powell · Ecology | Oct 1996 | 1,683 |
| 43 | Modelling radiation fluxes in simple and complex environments: basics of the RayMan model Andreas Matzarakis, Frank Rutz, Helmut Mayer · International Journal of Biometeorology | 11 Sep 2009 | 1,638 |
| 44 | A radiative cooling structural material Tian Li, Yao Zhai, Shuaiming He et al. · Science | 23 May 2019 | 1,637 |
| 45 | The footprint of urban heat island effect in China Decheng Zhou, Shuqing Zhao, Liangxia Zhang et al. · Scientific Reports | 10 Jun 2015 | 1,629 |
| 46 | Comparison of impervious surface area and normalized difference vegetation index as indicators of surface urban heat island effects in Landsat imagery Fei Yuan, Marvin E. Bauer · Remote Sensing of Environment | 18 Oct 2006 | 1,588 |
| 47 | Improvement and expansion of the Fmask algorithm: cloud, cloud shadow, and snow detection for Landsats 4–7, 8, and Sentinel 2 images Zhe Zhu, Shixiong Wang, Curtis E. Woodcock · Remote Sensing of Environment | 9 Jan 2015 | 1,582 |
| 48 | Strong contributions of local background climate to urban heat islands Lei Zhao, Xuhui Lee, Ronald B. Smith et al. · Nature | 8 Jul 2014 | 1,582 |
| 49 | Challenges and strategies for urban green-space planning in cities undergoing densification: A review Christine Haaland, Cecil C. Konijnendijk · Urban forestry & urban greening | 2015 | 1,545 |
| 50 | Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect across biomes in the continental USA Marc L. Imhoff, Ping Zhang, Robert E. Wolfe et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | 19 Nov 2009 | 1,523 |
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