Session 5 |
| | Urban heat island effect: observations and modelling |
| | Organizer: Tim Oke, Univ. of Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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| 8:00 AM | 5.1 | Estimation of the urban heat island effect for the Global Historical Climatological Network 
Kevin P. Gallo, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and J. O. Adegoke and T. Owen |
| 8:15 AM | 5.2 | The influence of the desert, topography and the sea on the urban heat island in an extremely hot and dry climate—the case study of Eilat, Israel
Oded Potchter, Levinsky College of Education and Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv, Israel; and M. Sofer |
| 8:30 AM | 5.3 | Contamination of the long-term temperature series of De Bilt (the Netherlands) by urban heat advection
Theo Brandsma, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands |
| 8:45 AM | 5.4 | Urban Heat Island Dynamics in Singapore
Matthias Roth, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore; and W. Chow |
| 9:00 AM | 5.5 | The role of land-use parameters in the spatial development of urban heat island in Szeged, Hungary
Zsolt Bottyán, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary; and J. Unger |
| 9:15 AM | 5.6 | "SAGA-CITES" project: Urban characteristics evaluation through microclimatic parameters measurement. The case study of Marseille and Toulouse french cities
Khrofa Lehtihet, Architecture School of Marseilles, Marseilles, France; and K. Ait-ameur |
| 9:30 AM | 5.7 | WAUHIS
Shu Jiong, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China |
| 9:45 AM | 5.8 | Statistical analysis of the dependence of urban heat island intensity on latitude
Uwe Wienert, University of Essen, Essen, Germany; and W. Kuttler |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 5.9 | Tests of Approaches to Simulate Heat Islands in the Urban Canopy Layer
Tim Oke, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and I. McKendry, S. Krayenhoff, K. Fortuniak, and K. Klysik |
| 10:45 AM | 5.10 | Remote sensing and modelling of urban heat islands
James A. Voogt, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and T. R. Oke |