Session 6: Mitigation of urban heat islands: scientific and regulatory aspects, implementation and cost-effectiveness issues, local perspectives, and quantification of environmental impacts.

Tuesday, 21 May 2002: 11:00 AM-2:14 PM

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Organizer:  David Sailor, Tulane University

Papers:

  11:00 AM

6.1

Impacts of urban land cover change on the Convective Boundary Layer (CBL) in Baltimore-Washington DC

Jimmy O. Adegoke, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and K. Gallo, R. Pielke Sr., L. Steyaert, and W. P. Kustas

 

6.2

The benefits of ‘Low Impact Development’ for urban climate / hydrology

  11:15 AM

6.3

Local cold air and its significance for the urban climate

Wilhelm Kuttler, University of Essen, Essen, Germany

Poster PDF (97.0 kB)

  11:30 AM

6.4

Analysis of the distribution of air temperature in the built-up area facing the mouth of the valley

Hideki Takebayashi, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan; and M. Moriyama and H. Shibaike

Poster PDF (2.7 MB)

  11:45 AM

6.5

Urban Effects on Night Air Temperature in Hot-humid Climate

Masakazu Moriyama, Kobe Univ., Kobe, Japan; and H. Takebayashi

Poster PDF (91.1 kB)

  12:00 PM

6.6

Data analysis on "Cool Spot" effect of green canopy in urban areas

Hitoshi Kono, Himeji Institute of Technology, Himeji-shi, Japan; and M. Moriyama and H. Takebayashi

Poster PDF (405.2 kB)

  12:15 PM

6.7

Mitigating urban heat island: possibility and effect of reducing anthropogenic heat emission from vehicles and buildings

Tsuyoshi Kinouchi, Public Works Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and J. Yoshitani

Poster PDF (126.0 kB)

  12:30 PM

6.8

Climate change impact in Honduras: Statistical analysis of Tegucigalpa's urban Environment

Arturo E. Rodriguez, Barry University, Miami, FL; and L. Gonzalez and I. M. Erazo

 

6.9

Total adaptation of advanced energy saving technologies to a building of research institute, CCRH

  1:00 PM

6.5a

Lunch Break

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