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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Urban Climate"”.
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Essays on Urban Climate Model Evaluation and Application
The field of urban climatology as a subfield of atmospheric science / physical geography has developed significantly over the past 3 decades. Major advances have occurred in the theoretical understanding of the urban effect at multiple spatial and temporal scales, as well as in empirical work …
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Urban climate–energy interactions from global to local scales
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Urban climate adaptation as a process of organisational decision making
In a world that is increasingly urbanised, cities are recognised as critical sites for tackling problems of climate change, both by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing the impacts of changing climate conditions. Unlike climate change mitigation, adaptation does not have one clear, …
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Urban climate resilience : a global assessment of city adaptation plans
As policy makers accept climate change as an irrefutable threat, adaptation planning has emerged as a necessary action for countries, states, and municipalities. This thesis explores adaptive responses to climate change in 17 cities, comparing municipal plans created to "battle" a global problem at …
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Designing With Climate: Using Parking Lots to Mitigate Urban Climate
Urban areas are known to have different climatic conditions than their rural counterparts including higher temperatures, greater wind speeds, and increased precipitation otherwise known as urban heat islands, urban wind, and urban precipitation. These phenomena are all caused by the design and form …
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Internal and structural variability in global urban climate projections in CMIP6
Climate change is projected to impose substantial impacts and climate-driven threats to urban areas. Effective development decisions and local actions to manage these risks rely on robust climate projections that are specific to built landscapes. A robust modeling framework to address uncertainty …
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A political ecology of design : contested visions of urban climate change adaptation
… Asia, severe weather events and long-term climate impacts challenge how we live and work. As the debates over cities, planning, and climate change intensify, governments are proposing increasingly ambitious plans to respond to climate impacts. These involve extensive reconfigurations of …
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Study and prediction of the energy interactions between buildings and the urban climate
Urbanization produces higher air temperatures in cities than in the undeveloped rural surroundings. This phenomenon is known as the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect and has been measured in different cities around the world. Conventional building energy programs use standard meteorological databases …
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The Role of Urban Climate and Land Cover in Phenology, Nest Success, and Habitat Use
Urban development is the fastest growing global land use and it increasingly brings drastic environmental change to natural systems. Climatic variability and spatial habitat heterogeneity within a city could influence species in habitat remnants. The objectives of this project were to investigate …
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From Global Cities to Global Governors: Power, Politics, and the Convergence of Urban Climate Governance
… are increasingly included in discussions of climate governance and lauded as sources of innovation, leadership, and experimentation. But can they succeed where states have failed in producing meaningful collective actions and effects? To respond to this pressing question requires …
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Spatial biophysical-economic impact assessment of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for Urban Climate Change Adaptation
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Comparison of simplified models of urban climate for improved prediction of building energy use in cities
… weather boundary conditions during simulation of urban buildings suffers from a lack of data that accounts for the UHI effect. To overcome barriers preventing the use of more representative climate data in building thermal simulations, this thesis evaluates two recently developed methods for …
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Leadership strategies employed in the public sector for promoting urban climate transition: the case of Cape Town, South Africa
… a global compact between nations to act on climate change, cities have emerged as interesting locations for studying climate leadership due to the failure at the national scale to translate adequate climate actions to meet the goals set. Cities have served as important agents in governance …
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Examining the Influence of Aerosols from Air Pollution on Current and Projected Temperatures in the Urban Area of Chongqing, China
… the understanding of aerosol influences in urban areas, focusing on the case region of Chongqing, China. By investigating scenarios for current and future climate, this study seeks to provide insights into the interactions and impacts of aerosols on urban climate. The research questions are: …
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An urban weather generator coupling a building simulation program with an urban canopy model
The increase in air temperature observed in urban environments compared to the undeveloped rural surroundings, known as the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, is being intensely studied, due to its adverse environmental and economic impacts. Some of the causes of the UHI effect are related to the …
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Disproportionate Realities: The Climate Justice Implications of Mitigation Policies Across Scales
<p>Global climate change will have disproportionate effects on low-income and minority communities around the world producing important justice challenges. As national governments increasingly rely on local governments, civil society, and private transnational actors to establish and implement …
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Urban scale phenomena and boundary layer processes in mountain valleys
The urban climate of the city of Trento, adopted as a representative case study of urban weather and climate phenomena in a mid-sized city lying in a mountain valley, is investigated using different methods and on different spatial scales. First the intensity of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) is …
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Precipitações diárias intensas na cidade de João Pessoa, Paraíba.
… the proposal of Monteiro (1976) on the climate of cities from the perspective of Urban Climate System (U.C.S.), hydro- meteoric subsystem. It has as main objectives to measure and analyze the intense daily rainfalls and their impacts on urban area in the city of João Pessoa, from …
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The Governance of Anaerobic Digestion in the United Kingdom: Insights from England and Scotland
… network governance, policy networks approach and urban climate governance. The exploration of these literatures leads to the adoption of an analytical framework on governance effectiveness, which includes governance, economic and geographical factors. England and Scotland are chosen for a …
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Modelling the impact of urbanisation on the regional climate of the Greater London area
Urban areas have well documented effects on climate, such as the urban heat island effect, reduction of wind speeds, enhanced turbulence and boundary layer heights, and changes in cloud cover and precipitation. This PhD examines the impact of the urban surface on the major agglomeration of London …
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