Designing urban forest to attenuate the temperature rising in the capital city of Cameroon 

Designing urban forest to attenuate the temperature rising in the capital city of Cameroon | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Research Article Designing urban forest to attenuate the temperature rising in the capital city of Cameroon Alphonse Yannick Takuijou Tedjang, Pan Xianchun, Zakari Aretouyap, and 1 more This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7812255/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract The harmful climate change observed worldwide is already affecting the local and everyday weather in Cameroon. The ambient temperature of Cameroon’s main cities is particularly and irreversibly increasing year after year. The aim of this paper is to investigate the necessity as well as the conception of urban forests to mitigate or attenuate this phenomenon of urban heat island (UHI) experienced by Yaounde’s citizens. In order to contribute to make Yaounde a green and sustainable city, and reinforce the resilience of its citizens to the increasing phenomenon of UHI, geographic information system (GIS), remote sensing and geostatistical analysis are combined in this investigation to carry out the 2000–2024’s timeseries analysis of some parameters such as land surface temperature (LST), urbanization rate, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and thermal comfort through the urban thermal field variance index (UTFVI). All those parameters are calculated and derived from Landsat (7 ETM+, 8 and 9 OLI/TIRS) and ALOS PALSAR 2. The extent of the UTFVI degradation and the spatial distribution of its pattern will help design and implement urban forests as a sustainable solution. Ambient temperature Cameroon Thermal comfort Urban Forest Sustainable development Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. Our growing team is made up of researchers and industry professionals working together to solve the most critical problems facing scientific publishing. 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