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Research on the modeling of local climate variability caused by environmental factors

Urban heat island monitoring requires the development of numerical models incorporating complex land use in cities. The monitoring of local climate change also requires further scientific expertise in microclimatology to support evaluation for the effects of instrument siting at surface climatological stations. Accordingly, the sophistication of urban canopy models that can simulate urban surface processes will be pursued in order to reproduce temperature and wind profiles in urban canyons and the effects of vegetation in parks and on building roofs, thereby enabling more reliable climate projection for cities. A further aim is to identify microscale factors that affect measured meteorological parameters for application to maintain the high quality of climatic data and validate models appropriately.


Projected change (departure from the status quo scenario) of mean surface temperature in summer during the period 2041 ‒ 2060 for two extreme scenarios of a dispersed city (left) and a compact city (right)



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