Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Urban microclimate in temperate climates: a summary for practitioners Cover

Urban microclimate in temperate climates: a summary for practitioners

Open Access
|Apr 2021

References

  1. 1Chatzipoulka, C., & Nikolopoulou, M. (2018). Urban geometry, SVF and insolation of open spaces: London and Paris. Building Research & Information, 46(8), 881898. DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2018.1463015
  2. 2Chatzidimitriou, A., & Yannas, S. (2017). Street canyon design and improvement potential for urban open spaces; the influence of canyon aspect ratio and orientation on microclimate and outdoor comfort. Sustainable Cities and Society, 33, 85101. DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2017.05.019
  3. 3Cheung, P. K., & Jim, C. Y. (2018). Comparing the cooling effects of a tree and a concrete shelter using PET and UTCI. Building and Environment, 130, 4961. DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.12.013
  4. 4Daniel, M., Lemonsu, A., Déqué, M., Somot, S., Alias, A., & Masson, V. (2018). Benefits of explicit urban parameterization in regional climate modelling to study climate and city interactions. Climate Dynamics, 52, 27452764. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-018-4289-x
  5. 5Emmanuel, R. (2005). An urban approach to climate sensitive design: Strategies for the tropics. Taylor & Francis.
  6. 6Fellini, S., Ridolfi, L., & Salizzoni, P. (2020). Street canyon ventilation: Combined effect of cross-section geometry and wall heating. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 146, 23472367. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3795
  7. 7Freitag, B. M., Nair, U. S., & Niyogi, D. (2018). Urban modification of convection and rainfall in complex terrain. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 25072515. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL076834
  8. 8Futcher, J., Mills, G., & Emmanuel, R. (2018). Interdependent energy relationships between buildings at the street scale. Building Research & Information, 46(8), 829844. DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2018.1499995
  9. 9Giridharan, R., & Emmanuel, R. (2018). The impact of urban compactness, comfort strategies and energy consumption on tropical urban heat island intensity: A review. Sustainable Cities and Society, 40, 677687. DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2018.01.024
  10. 10Golroudbary, V. R., Zeng, Y., Mannaerts, C. M., & Su, Z. (2018). Urban impacts on air temperature and precipitation over The Netherlands. Climate Research, 75, 95109. DOI: 10.3354/cr01512
  11. 11Gunawardena, K. R., Wells, M. J., & Kershaw, T. (2017). Utilising green and blue space to mitigate urban heat island intensity. Science of the Total Environment, 584585, 1040–1055. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.01.158
  12. 12Guo, C., Buccolieri, R., & Gao, Z. (2019). Characterizing the morphology of real street models and modelling its effect on thermal environment. Energy and Buildings, 203, 109433. DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.109433
  13. 13Hajat, S., & Kosatky, T. (2010). Heat-related mortality: A review and exploration of heterogeneity. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 64(9), 753760. DOI: 10.1136/jech.2009.087999
  14. 14Hatvani-Kovacs, G., Bush, J., Sharifi, E., & Boland, J. (2018). Policy recommendations to increase urban heat stress resilience. Urban Climate, 25, 5163. DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2018.05.001
  15. 15Heris, M. P., Middel, A., & Muller, B. (2020). Impacts of form and design policies on urban microclimate: Assessment of zoning and design guideline choices in urban redevelopment projects. Landscape and Urban Planning, 202, 103870. DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103870
  16. 16Hong Kong Government. (2006). Housing, Planning and Lands Bureau (Technical Circular No. 1/06) http://www.devb.gov.hk/filemanager/technicalcirculars/en/upload/15/1/jtc-2006-01-0-1.pdf
  17. 17Hoverter, S. P. (2012). Adapting to urban heat: A tool kit for local governments. Georgetown Climate Center. https://www.georgetownclimate.org/files/report/Urban%20Heat%20Toolkit_9.6.pdf
  18. 18Jamei, E., Rajagopalan, P., Seyedmahmoudian, M., & Jamei, Y. (2016). Review on the impact of urban geometry and pedestrian level greening on outdoor thermal comfort. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 54, 10021017. DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.10.104
  19. 19Katzfey, J., Schlünzen, H., Hoffmann, P., & Thatcher, M. (2020). How an urban parameterization affects a high-resolution global climate simulation. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 146, 38083829. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3874
  20. 20Kleerekoper, L., Taleghani, M., Dobbelsteen, A. v. d., & Hordijk, T. (2017). Urban measures for hot weather conditions in a temperate climate condition: A review study. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 75, 515533. DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2016.11.019
  21. 21Kolokotroni, M., Davies, M., Croxford, B., Bhuiyan, S., & Mavrogianni, A. (2010). A validated methodology for the prediction of heating and cooling energy demand for buildings within the urban heat island: Case-study of London. Solar Energy, 84, 22462255. DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2010.08.002
  22. 22Peng, F., Wong, M.-S., Ho, H.-C., Nichol, J., & Chan, P. W. (2017). Reconstruction of historical datasets for analysing spatiotemporal influence of built environment on urban microclimates across a compact city. Building and Environment, 123, 649660. DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.07.038
  23. 23Phelan, P. E., Kaloush, K., Miner, M., Golden, J., Phelan, B., Silva, H., III., & Taylor, R. A. (2015). Urban heat island: Mechanisms, implications, and possible remedies. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 40, 285307. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-102014-021155
  24. 24Pomerantz, M. (2018). Are cooler surfaces a cost–effect mitigation of urban heat islands? Urban Climate, 24, 393397. DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2017.04.009
  25. 25Ren, C., Ng, E. Y.-y., & Katzschner, L. (2011). Urban climatic map studies: A review. International Journal of Climatology, 31, 22132233. DOI: 10.1002/joc.2237
  26. 26Rohat, G., Goyette, S., & Flacke, J. (2018). Characterization of European cities’ climate shift—An exploratory study based on climate analogues. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 10(3), 428452. DOI: 10.1108/IJCCSM-05-2017-0108
  27. 27Salvati, A., Monti, P., Roura, H. C., & Cecere, C. (2019). Climatic performance of urban textures: Analysis tools for a Mediterranean urban context. Energy and Buildings, 185, 162179. DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.12.024
  28. 28Santamouris, M. (2014). Cooling the cities—A review of reflective and green roof mitigation technologies to fight heat island and improve comfort in urban environments. Solar Energy, 103, 682703. DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2012.07.003
  29. 29Skelhorn, C. P., Lindley, S., & Levermore, G. (2018). Urban greening and the UHI: Seasonal trade-offs in heating and cooling energy consumption in Manchester, UK. Urban Climate, 23, 173187. DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2017.02.010
  30. 30Stewart, I., & Oke, T. (2012). Local climate zones for urban temperature studies. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93, 18791900. DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00019.1
  31. 31Taleghani, M., Swan, W., Johansson, E., & Ji, Y. (2021). Urban cooling: Which façade orientation has the most impact on a microclimate? Sustainable Cities and Society, 64, 102547. DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2020.102547
  32. 32Vanderhaegen, S., & Canters, F. (2017). Mapping urban form and function at city block level using spatial metrics. Landscape and Urban Planning, 167, 399409. DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.05.023
  33. 33VDI. (1997). VDI-Guideline 3787, Part 1: Environmental meteorology–climate and air pollution maps for cities and regions. VDI/Beuth.
  34. 34Wilhelmi, O. V., & Hayden, M. H. (2010). Connecting people and place: A new framework for reducing urban vulnerability to extreme heat. Environmental Research Letters, 5(1), 014021. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/014021
  35. 35Yuan, J., Emura, K., & Farnham, C. (2017). Is urban albedo or urban green covering more effective for urban microclimate improvement? A simulation for Osaka. Sustainable Cities and Society, 32, 7886. DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2017.03.021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.109 | Journal eISSN: 2632-6655
Language: English
Submitted on: Jan 29, 2021
Accepted on: Apr 8, 2021
Published on: Apr 27, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2021 Rohinton Emmanuel, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.