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| Title |
Modeling effects of urban heat island mitigation strategies on heat-related morbidity: a case study for Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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| Published in |
International Journal of Biometeorology, July 2009
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00484-009-0247-y |
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| Authors |
Humberto R. Silva, Patrick E. Phelan, Jay S. Golden |
| Abstract |
A zero-dimensional energy balance model was previously developed to serve as a user-friendly mitigation tool for practitioners seeking to study the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Accordingly, this established model is applied here to show the relative effects of four common mitigation strategies: increasing the overall (1) emissivity, (2) percentage of vegetated area, (3) thermal conductivity, and (4) albedo of the urban environment in a series of percentage increases by 5, 10, 15, and 20% from baseline values. In addition to modeling mitigation strategies, we present how the model can be utilized to evaluate human health vulnerability from excessive heat-related events, based on heat-related emergency service data from 2002 to 2006. The 24-h average heat index is shown to have the greatest correlation to heat-related emergency calls in the Phoenix (Arizona, USA) metropolitan region. The four modeled UHI mitigation strategies, taken in combination, would lead to a 48% reduction in annual heat-related emergency service calls, where increasing the albedo is the single most effective UHI mitigation strategy. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 142 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2 | 1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 135 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 30 | 21% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 19 | 13% |
| Professor | 7 | 5% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 23 | 16% |
| Unknown | 30 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 30 | 21% |
| Engineering | 17 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 9% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 11 | 8% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 8% |
| Other | 17 | 12% |
| Unknown | 43 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 May 2021.
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#1,538,282
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#121
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#4,646
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#2
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