Overview of Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon towards human thermal comfort

• Main Authors: Lee, Y. Y., Md. Din, M. F., Ponraj, M., Noor, Z. Z., Iwao, K., Chelliapan, S.
• Format: Article
• Published: Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iasi 2017
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/76148/; https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85038855076&partnerID=40&md5=e5f64cafb5e87f00c031d6a2ceb6456e

Urban Heat Island (UHI) is expected to be a disastrous challenge to human in the following decade as a result of continuous urbanization without appropriate planning and design. The impacts of UHI are even getting worse due to large population density with improper building design especially in dens...