The Leeds urban heat island and its implications for energy use and thermal comfort

Parker, James

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110636

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“…The same is true for the stations in Valladolid, where station #72, located in the city center, resulted in climatic severities of WCS = 1.27 and SCS = 1.12 while station #73, located outside the city center, showed considerably different values (with WCS = 1.51 and SCS = 0.76). These results highlight the urban heat island effect, a phenomenon of thermal origin that occurs in urban areas and consists of a different temperature, which tends to be higher, especially at night, in the center of cities due to massive building [58]. For the RCP 4.5 scenario (Figure 3), it is observed that the WCS index values for 2055 range between −0.1 and 1.3, determined for the stations located in the Mediterranean coastal cities of Alicante, Barcelona, Cádiz, Castellón, Málaga, Murcia, and Valencia and the inland city of Soria, respectively.…”

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Dynamics of Changes in Climate Zones and Building Energy Demand. A Case Study in Spain

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In the current context of the climate crisis, it is essential to design buildings that can cope with climate dynamics throughout their life cycle. It will ensure the development of sustainable and resilient building stock. Thus, this study’s primary objective has been to demonstrate that the current climatic zones for buildings in peninsular Spain do not represent the current climatic reality and are not adapted to climate change and the impact on the energy demand of buildings. For this reason, the climatic zones of 7967 peninsular cities have been updated and adapted to the RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 scenarios by using the data measured in 77 meteorological reference stations. The results obtained have shown that in more than 80% of the cities, buildings are designed and constructed according to an obsolete climatic classification that does not take into account the current or future climatic reality, which will significantly affect the thermal performance of a building and highlights the need to review the climatic zoning in the country. The results obtained can be extrapolated to other regions. The methodology defined in this work can be used as a reference, thus making an essential scientific contribution in reflecting on current capacities and the possibilities of improving the building stock.

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confidence: 73%

Dynamics of Changes in Climate Zones and Building Energy Demand. A Case Study in Spain

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“…Other significant environmental factors affecting human health and productivity are air temperature and heat tolerance [40], UHI [8], building and structure surfaces [41,42], air pollutants [43], urban form [44], and the increased use of air conditioners in urban areas [6]. Notably, concerns have been expressed about the effects of UHI and air quality on communities [45].…”

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Workers’ Satisfaction vis-à-vis Environmental and Socio-Morphological Aspects for Sustainability and Decent Work

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This study examines worker satisfaction vis-à-vis outdoor places in terms of their environmental and socio-morphological aspects. Numerous studies have considered decent work as the eighth goal of sustainable development. However, it is worth investigating outdoor workers’ satisfaction with a view to the practical design of the surrounding context that supports their work in outdoor places. Using bibliometric analysis, this study investigates possible approaches toward providing decent work in a public place in Cairo as a case study, focusing on outdoor workers’ satisfaction. In the bibliometric analysis, this study used query settings in the Scimago database to search for manuscripts published in the previous five years. The result yielded 195 manuscripts that were filtered down to 50 manuscripts and then grouped using VOSviewr Software. Environmental noise and heat assessment analyses were performed using noise level measurements, remote sensing, and the Grasshopper platform. Further, we conducted an ethnographic study employing 77 participant observations. The results show that work hours and time affect worker satisfaction, as do environmental conditions, particularly noise and heat. However, unexpected findings from participant observation in this study do not accord with findings in other scholarly sources, where other observers find workers neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with the spatial morphology in the case study. Per this study, the alignment of worker satisfaction with convenient socio-morphological tangible elements of the workplace and with other environmental aspects should be attained in both specified replicable methods to engender decent work for outdoor workers.

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“…planners, and urbanists and are well documented in several metropolitan areas worldwide [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. Two factors related to the urban fabric significantly affect the UHI; these are the urban morphology and the urban geometry.…”

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“…UHIs can be exacerbated by the inappropriate design of the urban fabric, inappropriate building and surface materials, a lack of vegetation, and designed urban activities [10,12,13,17,18,22]. As a result, UHIs have been a central theme among climatologists, planners, and urbanists and are well documented in several metropolitan areas worldwide [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. Two factors related to the urban fabric significantly affect the UHI; these are the urban morphology and the urban geometry.…”

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Urban Heat Island Effects on Megacities in Desert Environments Using Spatial Network Analysis and Remote Sensing Data: A Case Study from Western Saudi Arabia

2021

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Contemporary cities continue to face significant geoenvironmental challenges due to constant rapid urbanization. Furthermore, the governments of cities worldwide are considering the green cities approach to convert their cities’ weaknesses into opportunities. The 2030 Saudi vision supports smart growth concepts, with a vision of speeding up economic growth while ensuring that natural assets strengthen the country’s foundations. The urban heat island (UHI) effect is a threatening phenomenon that increases the required cooling loads and negatively affects urban communities and the quality of life, especially in arid environments. This study integrates remote sensing and spatial network analysis to investigate the UHI using the distribution of land surface temperatures (LST) extracted from satellite data during both winter and summer seasons in Makkah city. We investigated and compared the UHIs in two districts, Al-Sharashef and AlEskan, representing the organic and deformed iron-grid with fragmented paralleled street networks, respectively. The spatial analysis of different LST maps, which were derived from Landsat-8 images revealed significant differences between the two case studies. The mean temperature for the AlEskan district was 1–1.5 °C higher than that of the Al-Sharshaf district. This difference can be attributed to the different urban fabrics between the two districts. Moreover, the zones that are currently under construction show relatively higher LST compared to residential zones. The research revealed that the organic/compact urban fabric is better than the deformed iron-grid urban fabric in mitigating the UHI. However, these results are specific to the test site; however, they emphasize the role of integration of remote sensing and spatial network analysis in urban planning. In light of these findings, we recommend integrating remote sensing-based LST analysis with spatial analysis of urban fabrics to better understand the causal effects of UHI, especially in cities located in desert environments. This can help mitigate the impact of projected global warming and contribute to improving the quality of urban life.

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The Leeds urban heat island and its implications for energy use and thermal comfort

Cited by 43 publications

References 61 publications

Dynamics of Changes in Climate Zones and Building Energy Demand. A Case Study in Spain

Dynamics of Changes in Climate Zones and Building Energy Demand. A Case Study in Spain

Workers’ Satisfaction vis-à-vis Environmental and Socio-Morphological Aspects for Sustainability and Decent Work

Urban Heat Island Effects on Megacities in Desert Environments Using Spatial Network Analysis and Remote Sensing Data: A Case Study from Western Saudi Arabia

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