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• TITLE: Impact of Desert Urbanization on Urban Heat Islands Effect

  AUTHORS: Latifa Saeed Al Blooshi, Abdelgadir Abuelgasim, Ahmad Nassar, Taoufik Ksiksi

  KEYWORDS: Land Surface Temperature, Thermal Difference, UAE, Urbanization, Urban Heat Islands

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Geology, Vol.10 No.7, July 27, 2020

  ABSTRACT: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has undergone major urban transformation after the establishment of the country in 1971. One noticeable change is urban expansion in terms of massive infrastructure, including new residential areas, highways, airports, and sophisticated transportation systems. Major landscape changes and disturbances, such as urban development, are among the major contributors to global climate change. Urban areas can be 3.5°C - 4.5°C warmer than neighboring rural areas, a phenomenon known as urban heat islands (UHIs). As such, urban development in the UAE was expected to follow a similar pattern and to be a major contributor to the country’s impact on global climate change. Analyses of multi-temporal (1988-2017) land surface temperature (LST) data obtained from Landsat satellite datasets over a desert city in the UAE showed unexpected results. Urbanization of desert surfaces in the study area led to a decrease of 3°C - 5°C in the overall LST. This was attributed to the associated expansion of green spaces in the newly developed urban areas, the expansion of date plantations and perhaps a cooling in the previously desert surface. Therefore, the UHI effect was not well demonstrated in the studied desert surfaces converted to urban areas.