Urban Climate
Classifying Urban Climate Zones Based upon Statistical Analysis of Urban Spatial Characteristics
... delineate urban climate zone boundaries on a discretionary ...actual urban climate phenomena because significant variables cannot be accounted ...between urban climate ...
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Understanding Controversies in Urban Climate Change Adaptation. A case study of the role of homeowners in the process of climate change adaptation in Copenhagen
... in urban climate change ...future climate issues and how to respond to these exist side by ...to climate change adaptation push away the others all together, as the present multiplicity of ...
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REVIEW TWO DECADES OF URBAN CLIMATE RESEARCH: A REVIEW OF TURBULENCE, EXCHANGES OF ENERGY AND WATER, AND THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND
... the urban surface, with its rigid buildings of different heights and physical characteristics, separated by trees, canyons and open spaces, makes it particularly susceptible to the development of a roughness ...
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National Urban Climate Clustering Analysis for Cluster Analysis of Container Handling Stations
... the climate data of the city in which it is located is extremely important for studying the impact of climate on container ...corresponding climate indicators, writed the crawling program, and ...
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Contesting climate justice in the city : examining politics and practice in urban climate change experiments
... of climate change are seen to lie outside the ...for climate change and/or expertise to address it participate, this may be a necessary part of the ...for climate change action, their visions of ...
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The capacities of private developers in urban climate change adaptation
... of climate change and adaptation, an identified need for further education was ...communicate climate change ...of climate change to developers? ...
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Increased vulnerability of COPD patient groups to urban climate in view of global warming
... Purpose: Patients with COPD show an increase in acute exacerbations (AECOPD) during the cold season as well as during heat waves in the summer months. Due to global climate changes, extreme weather conditions are ...
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THE VALUE OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR URBAN CLIMATE ADAPTATION
... A green roof can also filter air pollutants, including particulate matter (PM) and gaseous pollutants such as nitrogen oxide (NO X ), sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), carbon monoxide (CO), and ground-level ozone (O 3 ). ...
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The outdoor thermal benchmarks in Melbourne urban climate
... This paper aims to identify the different outdoor thermal comfort benchmarks for Melbourne city representing the temperate Oceanic climatic zone in Australia, adopting the most commonly [r] ...
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Remote Sensing of Urban Climate and Vegetation in Los Angeles
... 10-pixel area on the 18 m imagery or a 45 x 45 pixel area on the 4 m imagery. While larger validation polygon sizes tend to produce higher measures of fractional accuracy, 180 x 180 m polygons contained a desirable ...
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Direct Impacts of Global Climate Change on Urban Areas
... in climate might impact on specific ...future climate projections to finer spatial scales: dynamical downscaling and statistical ...regional/urban climate models (RCM) over specific area and ...
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Abstract: The manuscript wants to investigate the debate on urban resilience and climate change linking
... the urban Climate Strategy, in the "Place Leon Aucoc" project in Bordeaux [5], and "Cineroleum" in London and in the research and design experimentation carried out by the research group ...
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Urban vulnerability and resilience within the context of climate change
... to climate change, are par- ticularly damaging in urban areas because of interdependen- cies of their ...So, urban resilience has to face up to climate ...improving urban climate ...
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Effects of Climate and the Urban Heat Island Effect on Urban Tree Growth in Houston
... of urban trees differ substantially from forest sites and are mainly characterized by small planting pits with less water, nutrient and aeration availability, high temperatures and radiation inputs as well as ...
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Hydrologic Response in an Urban Watershed as Affected by Climate and Land Use Change
... effects of land use change and climate variation as well as water and soil preservation in urban.. 119.[r] ...
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Effects of Landscape Design on Urban Microclimate and Thermal Comfort in Tropical Climate
... humid climate as in Singapore ...on urban thermal ...of urban thermal comfort is a challenging topic in the research field of human bioclimate, which still needs further ...
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Adapting to Climate Change in Urban Areas
... The urban agglomeration of 14 million inhabitants with Buenos Aires at its centre extends from Zárate–Campana to Berisso–Ensenada and is located on the banks of the Rio de la ...under climate change and ...
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Climate and urban design of maritime public spaces in Mediterranean Arab cities
... another urban limit that still divides the old and new ...Arab urban history provides the key elements for the landscape recovery of this obstructed water artery, which is intermittently navigable until ...
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Tooling up urban planning for climate change mitigation in Malaysian cities
... developing urban-regions, the ability of the local planning authorities to quantify the spatial structure and form of existing urban areas, new developments and the emergent urban-region in terms of ...
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Social and Policy Aspects of Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Forests of Belgrade
... the urban microclimate (reducing albedo, providing shade and cover) and the hydrological regime of cities ...time, urban forests are becoming highly threatened by climate change ...of urban ...
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