Review of Outdoor Thermal Comfort Research in Hot Arid MENA Cities, 2010-2025

A systematic review synthesizing 120 peer-reviewed studies on outdoor thermal comfort published between 2010 and 2025. The work, authored by Mohamed H. Elnabawi Mahgoub, provides an integrated analysis of research across hot arid and semi-arid cities in the Middle East and North Africa. It classifies studies by geographic coverage, methodology, spatial scale, and urban morphology parameters to identify knowledge gaps and propose a climate-sensitive urban design framework.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking regional research trends based on the synthesis of 120 studies.
• Informing climate-responsive urban design based on the integrated conceptual framework linking morphology, microclimate, and perception.
• Identifying calibration needs for thermal indices like PET and UTCI based on the review's findings for extreme radiant environments.
• Guiding multi-scale urban modeling based on the analysis of micro-scale to city-scale study integration.

Strengths

• Systematically reviews 120 peer-reviewed studies using a PRISMA-guided methodology.
• Covers a defined temporal range from 2010 to 2025.
• Explicitly analyzes studies across geographic, methodological, and thematic dimensions as described.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 651.9 KB PDF review article, not a primary data collection.
• Column-level documentation for any underlying data is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the text.
• The geographic and climatic focus is specific to hot arid and semi-arid MENA cities, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Mohamed H. Elnabawi Mahgoub.

Collection Method

PRISMA-guided systematic review and synthesis of existing literature.

Time Range

2010 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-10 05:58:51.

Geography

Hot arid and semi-arid cities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), including Egypt, GCC states, the Levant, and North Africa.