Improved anthropogenic heat flux model for fine spatiotemporal information in Southeast China

Autor: Jiangkang Qian, Qingyan Meng, Linlin Zhang, Die Hu, Xinli Hu, Wenxiu Liu
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Environmental Pollution. 299:118917
ISSN: 0269-7491
Popis: Anthropogenic heat emission (AHE) is an important driver of urban heat islands (UHIs). Further, both urban thermal environment research and sustainable development planning require an efficient estimation of anthropogenic heat flux (AHF). Therefore, this study proposed an improved multi-source AHF model, which was constructed using diverse data sources and small-scale samples, to better represent the spatiotemporal distribution of AHF. The performances of three machine learning algorithms (Cubist, gradient boosting decision tree, and simple linear regression) were quantitatively evaluated, and the impact of spatiotemporal heterogeneity on AHF estimation was considered for the first time. The results showed that multi-source datasets and sophisticated algorithms could more effectively reduce the estimation error and improve the accuracy of the spatiotemporal distribution of AHF than simple linear regression. In practical applications, the Cubist model performed better, with prediction errors being less than 0.9 W⋅m
Databáze: OpenAIRE