Author: Haider TahaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Modeling and Observations to Detect Neighborhood-scale Heat Islands and Inform Effective Countermeasures in Los Angeles
Author: Haider TahaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Monitoring the Urban Heat Island Effect and the Efficacy of Future Countermeasures
Author: Ronnen LevinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Making Climate Assessments Work
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309487188
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Climate assessment activities are increasingly driven by subnational organizationsâ€"city, county, and state governments; utilities and private companies; and stakeholder groups and engaged publicsâ€"trying to better serve their constituents, customers, and members by understanding and preparing for how climate change will impact them locally. Whether the threats are drought and wildfires, storm surge and sea level rise, or heat waves and urban heat islands, the warming climate is affecting people and communities across the country. To explore the growing role of subnational climate assessments and action, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted the 2-day workshop on August 14-15, 2018. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
Heat Islands
Author: Lisa Mummery GartlandPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136564217
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings. Traditional, highly absorptive construction materials and a lack of effective landscaping are their main causes. Heat island problems, in terms of increased energy consumption, reduced air quality and effects on human health and mortality, are becoming more pressing as cities continue to grow and sprawl. This comprehensive book brings together the latest information about heat islands and their mitigation. The book describes how heat islands are formed, what problems they cause, which technologies mitigate heat island effects and what policies and actions can be taken to cool communities. Internationally renowned expert Lisa Gartland offers a comprehensive source of information for turning heat islands into cool communities. The author includes sections on cool roofing and cool paving, explains their benefits in detail and provides practical guidelines for their selection and installation. The book also reviews how and why to incorporate trees and vegetation around buildings, in parking lots and on green roofs.
Urban Heat Island Modeling for Tropical Climates
Author: Ansar KhanPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0128225580
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Urban Heat Island Modeling for Tropical Climates takes into account the different urban physics in tropical environments, presenting a way of UHI scaling for tropical cities. Topics include measuring, modeling and proper mitigation strategies, which account for the surface energy balance of tropics. Tropical cities are more susceptible to the effects of projected global warming because of conditions in tropical climates and the rapid growth of so many cities in this zone. The need for research on measuring, modeling and mitigation of UHI effects in tropical cities is of growing importance. This book walks through the basics of Urban Heat Islands, including causes, measurement and analysis then expands upon issues as well as the novel techniques that can be used to address issues specific to the region. Reviews topics related to understanding the fundamentals of modeling and impacts of urban heat islands Covers many techniques, from remote sensing, to numerical modeling and then applying them to urban climate studies in general, and in tropical cities Describes the scaling of urban heat islands based on long-term seasonal thermal parameters as feature-based classification systems using a probabilistic and fuzzy logic approach, unlike local climate zones (LCZs)
Recueil d'études et de documents pour servir à l'histoire du Départment de la Gironde et des départements voisins
Author: Investigating The Urban Heat Island Effect in Downtown Los Angeles, USC, and Los Angeles International Airport
Author: Tania TorresPublisher:
ISBN: 9781392729434
Category : Electronic dissertations
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Over the years, humans have modified the way we live in society. With civilization becoming more modern, changes in the physical and cultural world have become more apparent. As this progress, the human-land relationship is impacted, in which the environment and ecosystem are altered through means of anthropogenic activities. Indeed, this has brought upon a series of local environmental stresses, one of them being the urban heat island effect (UHI). Specifically, such type of problem is identified as urban areas that are significantly warmer than their surrounding rural areas, as a cause of human actions. For purposes of this study, the variables examined are historical synoptic observation records from 1970 - 2018, alongside Landsat imagery from 1970 - 2011, to investigate how land use and land cover changes influence the urban heat island at two weather stations: Downtown Los Angeles, USC and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Other elements analyzed in this paper include, population trends to determine the impact they have on temperature differences in relation to the urban heat island, and exploring how sea and land breeze play a role in affecting temperatures inland and coastal. In effect, the discussion of this study reflects that urban areas with higher population as Downtown Los Angeles, experience significantly warmer temperatures when compared to open spaces with lower surrounding populace as LAX. Additionally, temperatures along the coast are gradually increasing at LAX, however, not at the exponential rate as Downtown Los Angeles.
The Urban Heat Island
Author: Iain D. StewartPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0128156902
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) is an area of growing interest for many people studying the urban environment and local/global climate change. The UHI has been scientifically studied for 200 years and, although it is an apparently simple phenomenon, there is considerable confusion around the different types of UHI and their assessment. The Urban Heat Island—A Guidebook provides simple instructions for measuring and analysing the phenomenon, as well as greater context for defining the UHI and the impacts it can have. Readers will be empowered to work within a set of guidelines that enable direct comparison of UHI effects across diverse settings, while informing a wide range of climate mitigation and adaptation programs to modify human behaviour and the built form. This opens the door to true global assessments of local climate change in cities. Urban planning and design strategies can then be evaluated for their effectiveness at mitigating these changes. Covers both on-surface and near-surface, or canopy, measurements and impacts of Urban Heat Islands (UHI) Provides a set of best practices and guidelines for UHI observation and analysis Includes both conceptual overviews and practical instructions for a wide range of uses
Climate Intervention
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309314852
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The growing problem of changing environmental conditions caused by climate destabilization is well recognized as one of the defining issues of our time. The root problem is greenhouse gas emissions, and the fundamental solution is curbing those emissions. Climate geoengineering has often been considered to be a "last-ditch" response to climate change, to be used only if climate change damage should produce extreme hardship. Although the likelihood of eventually needing to resort to these efforts grows with every year of inaction on emissions control, there is a lack of information on these ways of potentially intervening in the climate system. As one of a two-book report, this volume of Climate Intervention discusses albedo modification - changing the fraction of incoming solar radiation that reaches the surface. This approach would deliberately modify the energy budget of Earth to produce a cooling designed to compensate for some of the effects of warming associated with greenhouse gas increases. The prospect of large-scale albedo modification raises political and governance issues at national and global levels, as well as ethical concerns. Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth discusses some of the social, political, and legal issues surrounding these proposed techniques. It is far easier to modify Earth's albedo than to determine whether it should be done or what the consequences might be of such an action. One serious concern is that such an action could be unilaterally undertaken by a small nation or smaller entity for its own benefit without international sanction and regardless of international consequences. Transparency in discussing this subject is critical. In the spirit of that transparency, Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth was based on peer-reviewed literature and the judgments of the authoring committee; no new research was done as part of this study and all data and information used are from entirely open sources. By helping to bring light to this topic area, this book will help leaders to be far more knowledgeable about the consequences of albedo modification approaches before they face a decision whether or not to use them.
Cooling the Cities
Author: Matheos SantamourisPublisher: Presses des MINES
ISBN: 2911762541
Category : Architecture and climate
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description