Cool Cities—Clean Cities? Secondary Impacts of Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategies on Urban Air Quality

2016 ◽  
pp. 371-375
Author(s):  
Joachim Fallmann ◽  
Renate Forkel ◽  
Stefan Emeis
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Urban Air Quality ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Urban Heat

The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on surface urban heat island changes and air-quality improvements across 21 major cities in the Middle East

2021 ◽  
pp. 117802
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. El Kenawy ◽  
Juan I. Lopez-Moreno ◽  
Matthew F. McCabe ◽  
Fernando Domínguez-Castro ◽  
Dhais Peña-Angulo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Quality Improvements ◽  
Urban Heat ◽  
Surface Urban Heat Island ◽  
The Impact

Trade-off between urban heat island mitigation and air quality in urban valleys

Urban Climate ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 100542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan J. Henao ◽  
Angela M. Rendón ◽  
Juan F. Salazar
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Urban Heat

scholarly journals Green Infrastructure as an Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategy—A Review

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 3577
Author(s):  
Fatma Balany ◽  
Anne WM Ng ◽  
Nitin Muttil ◽  
Shobha Muthukumaran ◽  
Man Sing Wong
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Simulation Tools ◽  
Human Thermal Comfort ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Urban Heat

Research on urban heat mitigation has been growing in recent years with many of the studies focusing on green infrastructure (GI) as a strategy to mitigate the adverse effects of an urban heat island (UHI). This paper aims at presenting a review of the range of findings from GI research for urban heat mitigation through a review of scientific articles published during the years 2009–2020. This research includes a review of the different types of GI and its contribution for urban heat mitigation and human thermal comfort. In addition to analysing different mitigation strategies, numerical simulation tools that are commonly used are also reviewed. It is seen that ENVI-met is one of the modelling tools that is considered as a reliable to simulate different mitigation strategies and hence has been widely used in the recent past. Considering its popularity in urban microclimate studies, this article also provides a review of ENVI-met simulation results that were reported in the reviewed papers. It was observed that the majority of the research was conducted on a limited spatial scale and focused on temperature and human thermal comfort.

scholarly journals Mitigating the Urban Heat Island Effect in Megacity Tehran

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahar Sodoudi ◽  
Parisa Shahmohamadi ◽  
Ken Vollack ◽  
Ulrich Cubasch ◽  
A. I. Che-Ani
Keyword(s):  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Cooling Effect ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Microscale Model ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Urban Heat ◽  
Surrounding Areas

Cities demonstrate higher nocturnal temperatures than surrounding rural areas, which is called “urban heat island” (UHI) effect. Climate change projections also indicate increase in the frequency and intensity of heat waves, which will intensify the UHI effect. As megacity Tehran is affected by severe heatwaves in summer, this study investigates its UHI characteristics and suggests some feasible mitigation strategies in order to reduce the air temperature and save energy. Temperature monitoring in Tehran shows clear evidence of the occurrence of the UHI effect, with a peak in July, where the urban area is circa 6 K warmer than the surrounding areas. The mobile measurements show a park cool island of 6-7 K in 2 central parks, which is also confirmed by satellite images. The effectiveness of three UHI mitigation strategies high albedo material (HAM), greenery on the surface and on the roofs (VEG), and a combination of them (HYBRID) has been studied using simulation with the microscale model ENVI-met. All three strategies show higher cooling effect in the daytime. The average nocturnal cooling effect of VEG and HYBRID (0.92, 1.10 K) is much higher than HAM (0.16 K), although high-density trees show a negative effect on nocturnal cooling.

scholarly journals Urban heat island intensity and its mitigation strategies in the fast-growing urban area

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shweta Jain ◽  
Srikanta Sannigrahi ◽  
Somnath Sen ◽  
Sandeep Bhatt ◽  
Suman Chakraborti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Urban Heat Island Intensity ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
Urban Heat

scholarly journals Secondary effects of urban heat island mitigation measures on air quality

2016 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 199-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Fallmann ◽  
Renate Forkel ◽  
Stefan Emeis
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Secondary Effects ◽  
Urban Heat

scholarly journals Spatial Superposition Method via Model Coupling for Urban Heat Island Albedo Mitigation Strategies

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (11) ◽  
pp. 1971-1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Humberto Silva ◽  
Jay S. Golden
Keyword(s):  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Mesoscale Model ◽  
Coupled Model ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Turbulence Theory ◽  
Superposition Method ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Lumped Model ◽  
Hourly Temperature ◽  
Urban Heat

AbstractA spatial superposition design is presented that couples the fifth-generation Pennsylvania State University–National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesoscale Model (MM5) with the National Center of Excellence (NCE) lumped urban thermal model for application to the city of Phoenix, Arizona. This technique utilizes an approach similar to Reynolds decomposition from turbulence theory. The presented decomposition takes the NCE model prediction from a mitigated strategy as the mean temperature and the difference between the NCE and MM5 predictions without mitigation strategy as the perturbed temperature. The goal of this coupled model is to provide spatial variability when simulating mitigation strategies for the urban heat island effect, as compared with the spatially invariant lumped model. A validation analysis was performed incorporating a maximum 35% change from the baseline albedo value for the urban environment. It is shown that the coupled model differs by up to 0.39°C with comparable average surface temperature predictions from MM5. The coupled model was also used to perform analysis of three different albedo-driven spatial mitigation schemes. This resulted in the identification that having a lesser number of mitigated points on a square urban grid in Phoenix with the same average albedo leads to a greater reduction in average hourly temperature.

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