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Urban thermal risk reduction: Developing and implementing spatially explicit services for resilient cities

Iphigenia Keramitsoglou, Panagiotis Sismanidis, Antonis Analitis, Tayrne Butler, Dimitra Founda, Christos Giannakopoulos, Eleni Giannatou, Anna Karali, Klea Katsouyanni, Vladimir Kendrovski,

Sustainable Cities and Society · 2017 · 44 citations · 65 references

Concepts

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References

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Natural Sciences, Meteorology, Thermal Comfort +13

More Intense, More Frequent, and Longer Lasting Heat Waves in the 21st Century

Gerald A. Meehl, Claudia Tebaldi · Science · 2004 · 4.3K citations

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Meteorology +17

The shuttle radar topography mission—a new class of digital elevation models acquired by spaceborne radar

Bernhard Rabus, Michael Eineder, Achim Roth et al. · ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · 2003 · 1.8K citations

Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Geoinformatics +15

World Urbanization Prospects

Philippe Bocquier · Demographic Research · 2005 · 1.8K citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Geography, Urban Planning +15

On the Measurement of Heat Waves

Lisa V. Alexander · Journal of Climate · 2012 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Meteorology +14