A climatologia como componente essencial no diagnóstico e na avaliação dos impactes ambientais em espaços urbanizados : o caso da cidade do Porto

Physical Geography, namely Climatology, can give an useful contribution to understand the complicate network of relationships among multiple variables responsible for the longlist of environmental impacts founding the urban ecosystem. We support our argument on an example of Oporto, where it is obvious and carne out easily, the close links between climate and life quality standards. We show some examples of how inoperative will be an environmental policy if it tries to solve, for instance, the air and soil quality without knowing in detail the regional and local behavior of temperature, precipitation, pressure, wind, etc