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The urban microclimate is not only relevant to people's experience of outdoor thermal conditions in the cities, but the temporal and spatial variance of urban microclimate is also causally related to the thermal performance of buildings.
These considerations represent the main motivations behind a number of research questions addressed in this paper: To which extent do microclimatic conditions in cities differ from those in the surrounding rural environment? What physical features of the urban environment could explain the variance of urban microclimate? What measures could mitigate adverse developments in microclimatic conditions in the cities? Can computational tools and models contribute to prediction the of facts of mitigation measures?

Reference information

Source:

Vienna University of Technology

Published in Climate-ADAPT: Feb 7, 2018

Date of publication:

2014

Keywords:
buildings, energy efficiency, heat island effect, urban microclimate
Climate impacts:

Extreme heat, Extreme cold

Adaptation Approaches:

Adaptation Measures and Actions, Vulnerability Assessment

Sectors:

Buildings, Energy, Transport, Urban

Geographic characterisation:

Europe

Biogeographical regions:

Continental, Mediterranean

Countries:

Austria, Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovenia

Sub Nationals:

Praha (CZ), Stuttgart (DE), Wien (AT)

City:

Padua, Budapest, Modena, Warsaw, Ljubljana

Publications and Reports Documents (1)
The Urban Climate
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