Three years of study of the Urban Heat Island in Padua: Experimental results

Busato, Filippo; Lazzarin, Renato; Noro, Marco

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2013.05.001

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“…Only a handful of studies use data collected at the ground-level weather stations [44,[62][63][64], as not many cities have enough weather stations to support research. Some researchers design, build, and operate a mobile station of their own to collect temperature data [26,59,65,66], but end up with short-term observations that range up to weeks at the most, which may seem too instantaneous for making planning decisions that often look years ahead.…”

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The Seasonal and Diurnal Influence of Surrounding Land Use on Temperature: Findings from Seoul, South Korea

Kim¹,

Kim²

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:There is a growing interest in understanding how the built environment affects temperature in cities. This study explores the impact of land use on temperature and how it varies by season and time of day in Seoul, South Korea. Unlike other studies that rely on extracted data from remotely sensed information, this study uses land use data from local GIS and near-ground temperature data from a network of state-run weather stations. To deal with multicollinearity among the land use variables, partial least squares regression models were used for analysis. Results suggest that residential and commercial uses and roads increase the temperature while open spaces decrease it. In detail, central commercial use, high-density residential use, and roads were influential heaters, while greenery was an influential cooler throughout the year. This study suggests the need for place-based planning and design solutions that help build climate resilience of cities.

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The Seasonal and Diurnal Influence of Surrounding Land Use on Temperature: Findings from Seoul, South Korea

Kim¹,

Kim²

2017

Sustainability

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“…Studies have used different tools and techniques including in-situ measurement and monitoring (Borbora & Das, 2014;Busato et al, 2014), CFD simulaition in combination with in-situ measurement (Dimoudi et al, 2014;Georgakis et al, 2014), and artificial neural network either in combination or independent from fuzzy logic (Gobakis et al, 2011;Mihalakakou et al, 2002;Santamouris et al, 1999), simulation (Tsilini et al, 2015) as UHI mitigation measures, they can be associated with UHI effects since they aim to improve the health and well-being by offering the benefits of mitigation of UHI effects.…”

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“…Despite the common understanding, recent studies suggest that UHI can be found even in medium-tosmall size cities (Busato et al, 2014). In fact some studies suggest that the impact of UHI effects may be even higher on smaller cities.…”

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Urban Heat Island (UHI) mitigating strategies: A case-based comparative analysis

O’Malley¹,

Piroozfar

Farr

et al. 2015

Sustainable Cities and Society

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Urbanisation may have been shown to have no effect on climate change, but some researchers suggest that cities are fully capable of responding to it. Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) represent dense urban areas within cities where the temperature is recorded to be higher than the neighbouring areas or those located in suburbia. Mitigation of UHI effects can help diminish detriments of climate change. This paper sets out to establish UHI mitigation strategies, their effectiveness and resilience to help provide recommendations for application of such strategies in future. Existing literature suggest that UK is facing with growing problem of UHI effects and sustainable development at urban scale can be improved if proportionate measures are taken to mitigate those effects. The lack of guidance for designers and planners with regards to UHI mitigation is also indicated in the literature where trees, shrubs and grass (TSG), use of high albedo materials (HAM) in external building surfaces and urban inland water bodies (UIWB) are identified as effective measures to mitigate UHI. This research identifies and tests resilience and effectiveness of UHI mitigation strategies, using ENVI-met simulations and through Urban Futures Assessment Method (UFAM).Assessed mitigation strategies (TSG, HAM, UIWB) are shown to have a similar level of resilience which could be improved if proper future-proof measures are taken in place. As a result, some practical suggestions are provided to help improve the resilience of tested UHI mitigation strategies in this study.

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“…Furthermore, they have not modelled all the important controllable factors that potentially affect the development of UHI. For example, Busato, et al [15] have reported their experimental results for three years of mobile traverses, which covered prefixed paths in the city of Padua in Italy. However, this traversing approach does not fully explain the impacts of topography and the effects of different land covers.…”

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Modelling the spatiotemporal change of canopy urban heat islands

Ali

Marsh

Smith

2016

Building and Environment

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This study models the spatiotemporal change of Birmingham's urban heat island (UHI) using air temperature measurements made during the HiTemp project to study the atmospheric conditions over the city [1]. The study identifies the causative factors and their contributions to the formation of UHI, based on a number of data used to build 2.5 D model; land cover, land use, geometrical factors and shadow layers.The raw air temperature measurements were filtered, georeferenced and interpolated to create maps of temperature variations. The expected influencing parameters on the development of the UHI were derived and prepared for regression modelling. The results showed that the difference in temperature across Birmingham city through two years of ground measurements (June 2012 -June 2014) reached up to 13.53 °C. The UHI's appeared daytime and night-time throughout the different seasons for approximately 56% of the total hours during the study period. However, the high intensity events happened during the calm and clear nights. Moreover, buildings' shadow provided up to 2 °C reduction to the air temperature, while the wind speed and direction are responsible for the size and distribution of hot spots. The built up area contributed to increase the UHI, whereas, the other types of land cover and the geometrical parameters, contributed less.

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Three years of study of the Urban Heat Island in Padua: Experimental results

Cited by 93 publications

References 22 publications

The Seasonal and Diurnal Influence of Surrounding Land Use on Temperature: Findings from Seoul, South Korea

The Seasonal and Diurnal Influence of Surrounding Land Use on Temperature: Findings from Seoul, South Korea

Urban Heat Island (UHI) mitigating strategies: A case-based comparative analysis

Modelling the spatiotemporal change of canopy urban heat islands

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