Heat on the Move: Contrasting Mobile and Fixed Insights into Temuco's Urban Heat Islands.

This study evaluates the combined use of mobile transects and fixed stations to analyze atmospheric urban heat islands (UHIs'a) in Temuco, Chile. Data were collected using 23 fixed stations and 3 mobile transects traversing predefined city routes, capturing temperature records at one-minute intervals. Results revealed moderate correlations between methodologies (coefficients: 0.

Energy poverty influences urban outdoor air pollution levels during COVID-19 lockdown in south-central Chile.

The effect of COVID-19 lockdowns on ambient air pollution levels in urban south-central Chile, where outdoor air pollution primarily originates indoors from wood burning for heating, may differ from trends in cities where transportation and industrial emission sources dominate. This quasi-experimental study compared hourly fine (PM) and coarse (PM) particulate matter measurements from six air monitors (three beta attenuation monitors; three low-cost sensors) in commercial and low/middle-income residential areas of Temuco, Chile between 2019 and 2020. The potential impact of varying annual meterological conditions on air quality was also assessed.