An urban “green planning” approach utilizing the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) modeling system. A case study of Athens, Greece

The role of local land-use on the urban heat island effect of Tel Aviv as assessed from satellite remote sensing

“…It was shown that temperatures gradually increased with increasing distance from the park, up to approximately 500 me1000 m (Papangelis, Tombrou, Dandou, & Kontos, 2012;Ren et al 2013;Upmanis, Eliasson, & Lindqvist, 1998;Yu & Hien, 2006). This spatial cooling effect was found to be related to the park size, with a greater effect for larger parks up to a certain threshold (Ren et al 2013).…”

Determinants of urban–rural land surface temperature differences – A landscape scale perspective

“…Improving the model performance can most likely be achieved by introducing further information that has shown to affect UHI intensity, including impervious surface fraction (Li et al, 2011;Yuan & Bauer, 2007), population density (Hung et al, 2006;Peng et al, 2012), sky view factor (Svensson & Eliasson, 2002;Unger, 2006) or wind speed (Papangelis et al, 2012;Unger, Sumeghy, Gulyas, Bottyan, & Mucsi, 2001).…”

“…The UHI phenomenon is studied primarily from an urban perspective, focussing on intra-urban relations between temperatures and the structure or composition of the city. Investigated are the effects of different surfaces on the urban climate, considering impervious surface area (Lee & French, 2009;Yuan & Bauer, 2007;Zhang, Zhong, Wang, & Cheng, 2009), parks and green spaces (Cao, Onishi, Chen, & Imura, 2010;Lee, Lee, Jin, & Song, 2009;Papangelis, Tombrou, Dandou, & Kontos, 2012;Zhang, Zhong, Feng, & Wang, 2009b) or water bodies (Steeneveld, Koopmans, Heusinkveld, & Theeuwes, 2014;Sun & Chen, 2012), as well as the spatial pattern of land cover (Connors, Galletti, & Chow, 2013;Mallick, Rahman, & Singh, 2013), the built-up density (Alcoforado, Andrade, Lopes, & Vasconcelos, 2009;Dobrovolny, 2013;Svensson & Eliasson, 2002), the vertical structure (Saaroni, Ben-Dor, Bitan, & Potchter, 2000;Unger, 2006), or the climatic differences related to urban districts, residential parcels and socio-economic conditions (Buyantuyev & Wu, 2010;Eliasson & Svensson, 2003;Klok, Zwart, Verhagen, & Mauri, 2012;Stone & Norman, 2006). Most of these studies refer to single major cities, e.g.…”

Configuration of Green Spaces for Urban Heat Island Mitigation and Future Building Energy Conservation in Hanoi Master Plan 2030

“…The model has been applied to urban climate [16,17] and extreme weather studies [18,19]. Various researchers have also applied WRF to UHI case studies for evaluating the effects of different land covers [8,20].…”

“…For the urban scale, the use of green spaces and cool sinks were suggested as the most effective techniques [2]. Maximizing the thermal benefits of the urban green spaces offers a solution for ameliorating the urban climate [6][7][8][9]. For the building scale, it was reported that the use of cool materials not only can decrease the ambient temperature, but also improve the thermal comfort and decrease cooling loads in buildings [10,11].…”