Deriving an Urban Climate Map in coastal areas with complex terrain in the Basque Country (Spain)

A comparison of thermal comfort conditions in four urban spaces by means of measurements and modelling techniques

“…Cloud cover information was obtained from Bilbao airport station [10] and specific humidity at 2500 m was obtained from US-NCEP (United States National Centers for Environmental Prediction) Reanalysis data. Hourly evolution of Ta and RH (i.e.…”

“…The effect of this meteorological phenomenon in other areas of the city is different [10] and should be taken into consideration during the urban planning processes due to its influence in Bilbao´s climate [33]. Other urban areas around the world are also affected in a similar way by this urban ventilation phenomenon [46,47].…”

“…In this sense, collaboration with urban climate experts to develop human bioclimatological studies turns to be essential [9,10].…”

Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data – Current status of production and evaluation

“…Kralove, and Olomouc in the Czech Republic (Geletič and Lehnert, 2016) and for Bilbao in Spain (Acero et al, 2013). Vector-based methods capture the boundary of the LCZ neighbourhood and represent a more precise delineation of contiguous neighbourhood types as individual objects; Unger et al (2014) and Perera and Emmanuel (2018) have used this method for Szeged and Colombo, respectively.…”

Análise do ambiente térmico e das condições de ventilação para a definição das funções climáticas na área urbana de Guimarães

“…Atendendo a que os problemas climáticos mais frequentes nas áreas urbanas se encontram associados à componente térmica e à circulação do ar (Alcoforado et al, 2005), torna-se fundamental analisar as características do uso do solo, sob a perspetiva da carga térmica, e as condições de ventilação que asseguram a renovação do ar (Acero et al, 2013). A partir da análise conjunta destes fatores climáticos é possível identificar e caracterizar diferentes climatopos (Acero et al, 2013) -i.e., áreas com características relativamente homogéneas, que potencialmente apresentarão uma resposta climática semelhante (Scherer et al, 1999;Alcoforado et al, 2005Alcoforado et al, , 2009.…”