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Local Climate Classification and Dublin's Urban Heat Island.
- Source :
- Atmosphere; 2014, p755-774, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- A recent re-evaluation of urban heat island (UHI) studies has suggested that the urban effect may be expressed more meaningfully as a difference between Local Climate Zones (LCZ), defined as areas with characteristic dimensions of between one and several kilometers that have distinct effects on climate at both micro-and local-scales (city streets to neighborhoods), rather than adopting the traditional method of comparing urban and rural air temperatures. This paper reports on a UHI study in Dublin (Ireland) which maps the urban area into LCZ and uses these as a basis for carrying out a UHI study. The LCZ map for Dublin is derived using a widely available land use/cover map as a basis. A small network of in-situ stations is deployed into different LCZ across Dublin and additional mobile temperature traverses carried out to examine the thermal characteristics of LCZ following mixed weather during a 1 week period in August 2010. The results show LCZ with high impervious/building coverage were on average >4 °C warmer at night than LCZ with high pervious/vegetated coverage during conditions conducive to strong UHI development. The distinction in mean LCZ nocturnal temperature allows for the generation of a heat map across the entire urban area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- URBAN heat islands
ATMOSPHERIC temperature
URBAN climatology
ATMOSPHERIC sciences
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20734433
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Atmosphere
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 100116487
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos5040755