Underground Heat Island Effect and Subsurface Temperature in Urban Environment

Dear Colleagues,

With underground development growing on a global scale, recently emerging data indicate that urbanization has had a major impact on the anthropogenic heat fluxes into urban subsurface. This has significantly disturbed the urban underground in relation to its hydro-thermo-chemomechanical status, leading to urban underground climate change and hence affecting the serviceability and habitability of urban underground. The lack of knowledge of the extent of underground climate change and the absence of relevant scientific advances, data, and modeling tools will lead to irreversible economic and environmental damage that will directly impact the sustainability and resilience of underground infrastructure. Therefore, underground climate change and the associated underground heat island effects are critical challenges for the future of sustainable urbanization. 

This Special Issue will focus on the underground urban heat island effect and the impact of urbanization on the underground climate. This issue will encompass research papers contributing to the theoretical and methodological advancement in sustainability and resilience of underground structures and energy resources in urban areas, urban groundwater quality and quantity management, urban subsurface and aquifer temperature variability evaluation and mapping, energy-related issues such as urban geothermal potential, and the application of energy geostructures. The scope welcomes novel analytical and computational approaches complemented by experimental sensing and monitoring in the urban scale. The scope also covers uncertainty quantification and calibration of large-scale subsurface models, innovative data-oriented models, and the application of AI and machine learning in subsurface modeling

Dr. Asal Bidarmaghz
Guest Editor

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• Underground urban heat island effect
• Subsurface temperature
• Large-scale modeling
• Urban groundwater
• Geothermal energy
• Underground climate change