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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Pérez Bartolomé, Isidro Alberto author García Pérez, María Ángeles author Rasekhi, Saeed author Pazoki , Fatemeh author Fernández Duque, Beatriz author 2024 Understanding and describing how urban heat islands evolve is important, given the noticeable impact they have on people living in cities. This paper considers the London heat island from gridded values with one-arcminute spatial resolution over a 33-year period, from 1990 to 2022. Among the available variables in the database, maximum and minimum air temperatures were used. A cold island was not observed, since temperatures in the city centre were higher than those in the surroundings during the day and at night. However, the urban heat island extension was higher for the maximum temperature, whereas this island was limited to the city centre for the minimum temperature, in line with the area delimited by the congestion charge. Lamb weather types were determined, and it was found that the anticyclonic type prevailed, followed by southwest, west, and cyclonic types. The difference between both temperatures was about 6.8 °C in the city centre, and was particularly defined for anticyclonic and cyclonic types. Moreover, anticyclonic situations were linked with the highest urban heat island intensities for minimum temperature. Finally, the temperature trend was similar for both temperatures –about 0.2–0.3 °C/10 years in the city centre– thereby offering a possible quantification of climate change. Sustainable Cities and Society, noviembre 2024, vol. 114, 10574 2210-6707 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73287 10.1016/j.scs.2024.105743 105743 Sustainable Cities and Society 114 Extension and trend of the London urban heat island under Lamb weather types