Airflow modelling for building design: A designers' review

R Zhang, X Xu, K Liu, L Kong, W Wang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Sustainable design is no longer an emerging debate. Data-driven urban and architectural
design faces several potential threats related to airflow modelling, including extreme wind …

A review of the impact of blue space on the urban microclimate

P Ampatzidis, T Kershaw - Science of the total environment, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon represents a major public health issue and has
received great attention due to rapid urbanisation. Blue spaces have long been considered …

Urbanization and climate change impacts on future urban flooding in Can Tho city, Vietnam

HTL Huong, A Pathirana - Hydrology and Earth System …, 2013‏ - hess.copernicus.org
Urban development increases flood risk in cities due to local changes in hydrological and
hydrometeorological conditions that increase flood hazard, as well as to urban …

Effect of VOC emissions from vegetation on air quality in Berlin during a heatwave

G Churkina, F Kuik, B Bonn, A Lauer… - … science & technology, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
The potential of emissions from urban vegetation combined with anthropogenic emissions to
produce ozone and particulate matter has long been recognized. This potential increases …

Urbanization-induced urban heat island and aerosol effects on climate extremes in the Yangtze River Delta region of China

S Zhong, Y Qian, C Zhao, R Leung… - Atmospheric …, 2017‏ - acp.copernicus.org
The WRF-Chem model coupled with a single-layer urban canopy model (UCM) is integrated
for 5 years at convection-permitting scale to investigate the individual and combined impacts …

Quantifying urban heat island intensity and its physical mechanism using WRF/UCM

H Li, Y Zhou, X Wang, X Zhou, H Zhang… - Science of the Total …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Reliable quantification of urban heat island intensity (UHII) is crucial for the evaluation of
extreme heat waves and the related heat stress. As a powerful approach for the study of …

WRF-based scenario experiment research on urban heat island: A review

D Zhu, R Ooka - Urban Climate, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Urbanization leads to an increase in urban heat islands (UHIs), which is a cause for concern
because they endanger the ecological environment and human health. Scenario …

Green roof mitigation potential for a proxy future climate scenario in Chicago, Illinois

KR Smith, PJ Roebber - Journal of applied meteorology and …, 2011‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Advanced Research version of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
(ARW) coupled with an urban canopy model is used to investigate the potential of vegetative …

Targeted implementation of cool roofs for equitable urban adaptation to extreme heat

AM Broadbent, J Declet-Barreto, ES Krayenhoff… - Science of the total …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Cities are facing the twin pressures of greenhouse gas driven climatic warming and locally
induced urban heating. These pressures are threatening populations that are sensitive to …

Improving accuracy in simulation of urban wind flows by dynamic downscaling WRF with OpenFOAM

R Kadaverugu, V Purohit, C Matli, R Biniwale - Urban Climate, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Managing urban air systems is now on top priority. The local wind flow at the building scale
is governed by the urban morphology, which is difficult to be captured by the …