The impact of urban compactness, comfort strategies and energy consumption on tropical urban heat island intensity: a review
| Autor: | Rohinton Emmanuel, Renganathan Giridharan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry 020209 energy Geography Planning and Development Environmental resource management Tropics Transportation 02 engineering and technology Energy consumption Environmental design Vegetation 01 natural sciences Geography Urban climate 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering TH Urban heat island business Far East Green infrastructure 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Civil and Structural Engineering |
| ISSN: | 2210-6707 |
| Popis: | The importance of studying tropical urban climate was recognised by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) as early as in 1981 but substantial improvements were seen only in the last two decades. However specific knowledge of tropical urban climate still lags behind that of temperate climate. In this paper, authors review the state of the art in tropical heat island intensity, its influence on building energy consumption and the effect of urban compactness in the tropics. The review is limited to peer-reviewed journal publications found on four databases: Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar and Science Direct. The review indicates that although the tropical belt has large variations in topography, forest cover, land mass and development patterns, much of the current work is confined largely to Far East Asia, South Asia and South America. Future studies should focus on protocol for parameterisation and standardisation of measurement, in depth and scientific understanding of the influence of vegetation, water and topography, survey and monitoring of the context specific relationship between UHI and energy consumption, development of database for numerical model validation and improvement, and the context specific development of LCZ based institutional framework to integrate UHI mitigation strategies with environmental design guidelines. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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