Parametric Investigation of Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategies
Upstream urbanization causes changes in local weather, air quality, and climate. One of the most documented phenomena of urban climate change caused by urbanization is known as the “urban heat island” (UHI), which conventionally refers to the difference between the temperatures of an urban area and its corresponding rural and suburban areas.
This study is initiated with the intention to analyze the impact of various mitigation strategies on the UHI intensity inside the canopy level of a new development master plan of a U.S. northeastern city. To this purpose, a parametric approach was proposed to:
(1) estimate hourly heat islands inside the canopy level of urban neighborhoods in the area of State College, Pennsylvania;
(2) provide a computationally optimized list of intervention arrangements and placements to tackle the potential problem of UHI.
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| Work Title | Parametric Investigation of Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategies |
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| Subtitle | A case study of Pine Hall Traditional Town Development (TTD), Ferguson Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania |
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| License | CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial) |
| Work Type | Poster |
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| Publication Date | September 23, 2021 |
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| Deposited | February 22, 2022 |