Dhaka’s Heat Island Explodes as City Triples Its Built-Up Footprint Since 1990
A 34-year satellite analysis shows Dhaka's built-up area nearly tripling as vegetation and water vanished, driving 70 percent of the ...
Tag: land surface temperature
Mapping Bangladesh’s Heatwave Hotspots: Where Heat Meets Vulnerability
A new district-level study maps heatwave vulnerability across Bangladesh and finds that socioeconomic sensitivity and weak adaptive capacity, not temperature ...
Satellite Data Reveals Guwahati’s Surface Temperatures Climbed Nearly Four Degrees in Three Decades
A 30-year Landsat analysis shows Guwahati's mean land surface temperature rose from 28.27 to 32.07 degrees Celsius as urban expansion ...
Greening the Gap: Poorer US Neighborhoods Are Cooling Down Faster Than Rich Ones
A 34-year satellite analysis of 55 US cities shows that heat disparities between low- and high-income neighborhoods have generally narrowed, ...
Satellites Reveal Three Decades of Ecological Ups and Downs in Rapidly Urbanizing Nepal
A 30-year satellite analysis of Nepal's Rupandehi District shows ecological quality improved overall despite a tenfold expansion of built-up area, ...
Satellites Reveal Dry, Scorching Forage Is the Real Bottleneck on India’s Cattle Migration Routes
A satellite and GPS tracking study of a Gir cattle migration corridor in central India finds that dry, hot forage, ...
AI Builds Street-Level Heat Maps of Sydney From Sparse Weather Data
A machine learning framework in Sydney produced highly accurate 30-metre air temperature maps and proved transferable to data-sparse cities.
New Method Pulls Ground Temperature and Emissivity Apart From Raw Radiation Data
A new conditioning-controlled retrieval framework jointly derives broadband land surface temperature and emissivity from paired ground-based longwave irradiance measurements, achieving ...
Satellite Skin Temperature Gets a Memory Boost in Land Models Through Joint Soil Updates
Researchers have devised an ensemble-based scheme that jointly updates soil temperature and moisture, turning fleeting satellite land surface temperature observations ...
Satellites Reveal Three Decades of Warming as Sylhet’s Forests Give Way to Cities
A thirty-year satellite and field study of Bangladesh's Sylhet Division shows settlement expansion of nearly 192 percent, a quarter of ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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