Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Dr. Khan is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Lalbaba College, Howrah, India. His research incorporates simulation and numerical modeling of global climatic events including urban climate and microclimatic variation using the state-of-the-art Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and Regional Climate Model (RegCM). A key focus of his research is searching for appropriate mitigation strategies and technologies to decrease the overheating of tropical urban areas while also decreasing energy consumption and protecting health. He has commendable expertise in handling data and implementing models in many software platforms. His research contribution has been recognized by some leading researchers in the domain of urban climate research. Hashem Akbari is a Professor at the Department of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Canada. He has conceived, led, and supervised work in heat-island quantification and mitigation in the United States and abroad. Prior to Concordia University, he was a senior scientist and the leader of the Heat Island Group at the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California. He is Chief Editor and Editor of several scientific journals and co-author of 5 books on related to the effects of UHIs, and author of almost 239 scientific papers published in peer reviewed international scientific journals. Francesco Fiorito is an Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy and Senior Visiting Fellow, University of New South Wales, Australia. His research focuses on the development and assessment of new technologies and systems for buildings, with the aim of reducing building energy demand and improve indoor and outdoor comfort. He is in the editorial board of several scientific journals and has published more than 60 research outputs. Sk Mithun is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Haldia Government College, Vidyasagar University, India. His research primarily focuses on urbanization, urban sprawl, modeling urban growth and land use/land cover dynamics. Dev Niyogi is Dave P. Carelton Centennial Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at Jackson School of Geosciences, and Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering in the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He was the most recent chair of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Board of Urban Environment and elected advisory board member of the International Association of Urban Climate. He is currently serving on the AMS Committee on Applied Climatology, and has previously served on AMS Committee on Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, invited member FGDC Spatial Climate Working Group, Member of the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model WG-14 (land surface models), and Member of the AGU Biogeochemistry meetings group/spring meeting student awards chair. He has provided invited testimonies to the National Academy study group, planning summer meetings, and Senate Working groups.

• 1. Mapping and management of urban shade assets: a novel approach for promoting climatic urban action2. Vulnerability to the urban heat islands effect in the Global North and the Global South: assessment of the drivers and mitigation strategies3. Luminescence for the built environment: from lighting to urban heat island mitigation purposes4. Urban heat island: land cover changes, management, and mitigation strategies5. Use of landscape metrics for the mitigation of the surface urban heat island effect in Mediterranean cities6. Effects of land use composition and pattern on land surface temperature: an urban heat island study in the megacities of Scotland, UK, using time series of landsat TM/ETM D data7. Urban heat island mitigation and adaptation in China: policies and practices8. Climatic control of outdoor spaces in the Universal Exposition 1992 (EXPO’92)9. Open space and built form metrics: identification and implementation of strategies to mitigate UHI in tropical climates10. StEMAIRF-BGI as a tool for UHI mitigation using land use planning and designing11. Urban heat island effect in India: assessment, impacts, and mitigation12. Urban heat island in Latin American cities: a review of trends, impacts, and mitigation strategies13. Air quality and heat-related health impacts of increasing urban greenery cover14. Visualization of landuse change pattern and its impact on Urban Heat Islands15. Surface urban heat islands in 33 medium-sized cities across different climates in Chile16. Investigating the intra-urban urban heat island effect for two subtropical mega-urban regions in China by adopting local climate zone17. Impact of urban cool strategies on energy performance of HVAC systems in a dense urban district of a Mediterranean city, Beirut, Lebanon