← back to search

Zhaowu Yu

Fudan University · CN
Area of research
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis · Environmental Engineering
Research interest
Research interests include Urban Green Space and Health, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Noise Effects and Management.
h-index
39
citations
5,471
works
93
NIH funding
primary concept
email

Recent publications

Enhancing Climate-Driven Urban Tree Cooling with Targeted Nonclimatic Interventions
Environmental Science & Technology 2025cited by 44position: firstdoi
What drives the cooling dynamics of urban vegetation via evapotranspiration and shading under extreme heat?
Sustainable Cities and Society 2025cited by 14position: middledoi
Optimizing Vegetation and Building Configurations for Streetscape Heat Mitigation: A Multi-Scale Analysis under Extreme Heat
Building and Environment 2025cited by 11position: middledoi
Greening dominates greenspace exposure inequality in Chinese cities
npj Urban Sustainability 2025cited by 9position: firstdoi
The 2025 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: empowering cities for synergistic action
The Lancet Public Health 2025cited by 5position: middledoi
Green spaces provide substantial but unequal urban cooling globally
Nature Communications 2024cited by 190position: middledoi
Enhanced observations from an optimized soil-canopy-photosynthesis and energy flux model revealed evapotranspiration-shading cooling dynamics of urban vegetation during extreme heat
Remote Sensing of Environment 2024cited by 118position: firstdoi
Vertical canopy structure dominates cooling and thermal comfort of urban pocket parks during hot summer days
Landscape and Urban Planning 2024cited by 94position: middledoi
Exposure Ecology Drives a Unified Understanding of the Nexus of (Urban) Natural Ecosystem, Ecological Exposure, and Health
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 2024cited by 80position: firstdoi
Quantifying the main and interactive effects of the dominant factors on the diurnal cycles of land surface temperature in typical urban functional zones
Sustainable Cities and Society 2024cited by 73position: lastdoi
The impacts and thresholds detection of 2D/3D urban morphology on the heat island effects at the functional zone in megacity during heatwave event
Sustainable Cities and Society 2024cited by 50position: middledoi
Green-gray imbalance: Rapid urbanization reduces the probability of green space exposure in early 21st century China
The Science of The Total Environment 2024cited by 43position: middledoi
A novel integrated socio-ecological-economic index for assessing heat health risk
Ecological Indicators 2024cited by 28position: lastdoi
Quantifying physiological health efficiency and benefit threshold of greenspace exposure in typical urban landscapes
Environmental Pollution 2024cited by 24position: middledoi
Heterogenous impact of background meteorological factors on the cooling effect of two types of typical urban parks: Evidence from Shanghai, China
Building and Environment 2024cited by 11position: lastdoi
Exploring consensus and divergence in different societal groups' preferences for typical urbanized landscapes in villages: Implications for rural planning
Ecological Frontiers 2024cited by 6position: middledoi
A first Chinese building height estimate at 10 m resolution (CNBH-10 m) using multi-source earth observations and machine learning
Remote Sensing of Environment 2023cited by 277position: middledoi
Quantifying tree canopy coverage threshold of typical residential quarters considering human thermal comfort and heat dynamics under extreme heat
Building and Environment 2023cited by 84position: lastdoi
Quantifying threshold effects of physiological health benefits in greenspace exposure
Landscape and Urban Planning 2023cited by 65position: middledoi
Quantifying threshold and scale response of urban air and surface temperature to surrounding landscapes under extreme heat
Building and Environment 2023cited by 58position: middledoi
Climatic and Economic Background Determine the Disparities in Urbanites’ Expressed Happiness during the Summer Heat
Environmental Science & Technology 2023cited by 43position: middledoi
A simple but actionable metric for assessing inequity in resident greenspace exposure
Ecological Indicators 2023cited by 42position: firstdoi
Quantifying the influence of 2D and 3D urban morphology on the thermal environment across climatic zones
Landscape and Urban Planning 2022cited by 166position: middledoi
The influence of local background climate on the dominant factors and threshold-size of the cooling effect of urban parks
The Science of The Total Environment 2022cited by 135position: middledoi
Natural-anthropogenic environment interactively causes the surface urban heat island intensity variations in global climate zones
Environment International 2022cited by 94position: middledoi
Impacts of climatic zones on urban heat island: Spatiotemporal variations, trends, and drivers in China from 2001–2020
Sustainable Cities and Society 2022cited by 93position: middledoi
Investigating pedestrian-level greenery in urban forms in a high-density city for urban planning
Sustainable Cities and Society 2022cited by 65position: middledoi
How to build a heat network to alleviate surface heat island effect?
Sustainable Cities and Society 2021cited by 119position: firstdoi
Reverse Thinking: A New Method from the Graph Perspective for Evaluating and Mitigating Regional Surface Heat Islands
Remote Sensing 2021cited by 60position: firstdoi
A New Urban Functional Zone-Based Climate Zoning System for Urban Temperature Study
Remote Sensing 2021cited by 57position: firstdoi

Grants

No grants ingested yet.

Frequent collaborators

Gaoyuan Yang · Hangzhou Dianzi University13 papers (2019–2025)Xihan Yao · Fudan University9 papers (2023–2025)Xiangrong Wang · Fudan University5 papers (2019–2022)Jinguang Zhang · University of Vermont5 papers (2021–2024)Henrik Vejre · Department of Land Resource Management5 papers (2019–2024)Xiaolei Geng · Fudan University5 papers (2022–2024)Weiyuan Ma · Fudan University4 papers (2023–2025)Wenjuan Ma · Xinjiang Medical University4 papers (2024–2025) · 3 papers (2021–2024)Chengwei Li · Fudan University3 papers (2022–2024)Dou Zhang · Fudan University3 papers (2022–2024)Bin Zhao · Fudan University3 papers (2022–2024)Jinyu Hu · Fudan University3 papers (2025–2025)Siqi Zhou · Fudan University3 papers (2023–2024)Chi Xu · The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University3 papers (2023–2025) · 2 papers (2019–2019)Yuyu Zhou · Ningbo University2 papers (2025–2025)Yujia Zhang · Fudan University2 papers (2025–2025)Jiaqi Chen · Fudan University2 papers (2024–2025)Wenjuan Ma · Fudan University2 papers (2024–2025)