Analysis of regional characteristics of the atmospheric heat balance in the Tokyo metropolitan area in summer

Sato, Taiki; Murakami, Shuzo; Ooka, Ryozo; Yoshida, Shinji

doi:10.1016/j.jweia.2008.02.004

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“…The concept of a metropolis originated in Japan [57], and the Tokyo metropolitan area, as the most extensively urbanized region in Japan, is one of the most typical cases [58]. In a narrow sense, this area includes Tokyo and the three nearby cities of Kanagawa, Chiba, and Saitama.…”

Section: Tokyo Metropolitan Area In Japanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coordinating the Dynamic Development of Energy and Industry in Composite Regions: An I-SDOP Analysis of the BTH Region

Chong

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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In various regions of the world, there is an urgent need to address energy challenges by accelerating the transformation of energy and industrial systems. The problem is quite complex in rapidly developing composite regions, with the necessity to coordinate the dynamic development of energy and industry in several heterogeneous subregions. Through a typical case study on the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region, this study attempts to form a referable methodology for the coordinated development of energy and industry for the sustainable development of rapidly developing composite regions. The concept of an Integrated strategy of Sustainable development objectives, Decision-making systems, Operation systems, and Physical systems (I-SDOP) is proposed to describe the multilayer dynamics of complex energy and industrial systems. A five-step I-SDOP analysis is conducted to determine an integrated strategy for the coordinated development of energy and industry in the BTH region, based on the analysis of its sustainable development objectives, decision-making systems, operation systems, and physical systems. The results indicate the importance of innovation sources and extensive communications to promote market reform and engineering projects that fulfill the strong political wills and strategic plans of China's central government.

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Section: Tokyo Metropolitan Area In Japanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coordinating the Dynamic Development of Energy and Industry in Composite Regions: An I-SDOP Analysis of the BTH Region

Chong

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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“…Various urban planning scenarios have been proposed to minimize the impact of urbanization on urban climate. Since mid-1990s, a lot of numerical studies of mesoscale climate in urban areas have been carried out by many researchers [121][122][123][124][125][126].…”

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In order to numerically simulate unsteady flow phenomena, LES or DNS technique should be used. Especially LES is appropriate for application in the wind engineering problem, because the requirement of computational power and memories is reasonable. The present study discusses the applicability of LES to several issues such as practical use for windresistant design, wind velocity affected by the terrain or the ground surface condition, turbulence structures and atmospheric diffusion in the urban area. Comparison with full-scale measurement data is important for all cases to clarify the effectiveness of LES.

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“…Some are related to natural factors such as weather and location. [1][2][3] Other factors are related to human activity, such as the reduction of vegetation and water bodies, urban geometry and materials, and anthropogenic heat emissions. 4 Change of anthropogenic heat release is one of the major reasons leading to the alteration of local climate.…”

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Impacts of inland water area changes on the local climate of Wuhan, China

Zhou

Ooka

Chen

et al. 2014

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A distinct feature of Wuhan is that almost a quarter of the total area of this city is covered with water, leading to its unique hot and humid climate characteristics in summer. However, according to records, water area in built-up zone of Wuhan has been reduced by 130.5 km 2 from 1965 to 2008, while the annual average air temperature has been increased by more than 3 C. To investigate the quantitative connection between the water area reduction and air temperature increase, three scenarios were simulated in a summer; to evaluate the impact of water reduction on the local thermal environment in different water areas; and to study the impact of water reduction on the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon. Meso-scale meteorological models of Weather Research and Forecasting model were applied in this study for quantitative assessment and prediction. With the predictions, this study reveals that the decreased water area could affect air temperature, wind velocity and wind flow direction, energy balance and the UHI intensity. The simulations show that areas with significant wind velocity, wind direction and air temperature differences are distributed among the downwind zones. Moreover, the areas with high UHI intensity are wider and farther from the boundary of urban areas because of the reduction of water areas.

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Analysis of regional characteristics of the atmospheric heat balance in the Tokyo metropolitan area in summer

Cited by 13 publications

References 6 publications

Coordinating the Dynamic Development of Energy and Industry in Composite Regions: An I-SDOP Analysis of the BTH Region

Coordinating the Dynamic Development of Energy and Industry in Composite Regions: An I-SDOP Analysis of the BTH Region

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Impacts of inland water area changes on the local climate of Wuhan, China

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