Street-level modelling of the effect of climate adaptation measures on air quality

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985807:_____/16:00478794

Result on the web

<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0274849" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0274849</a>

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Street-level modelling of the effect of climate adaptation measures on air quality

Original language description

Cities play an important role regarding potential climate change impacts. Urban areas are often vulnerable and poorly prepared to respond to climate change impacts, such as heat waves. Within UrbanAdapt project we aim to perform high-resolution street-level modelling to evaluate different adaptation measures which are orientated to lower the temperature in the streets during hot summer days. The heterogeneity of urbanized land surface leads to a need for a very fine resolution when modelling air flows and temperature near to the surface. We have chosen the atmospheric model PALM as a tool for our simulations. PALM is a LES model which includes parametrizations of many atmospheric processes (e.g. land surface, plant canopy, solar radiation and convective processes) and also enables to involve pollutant dispersion. On the other hand, the parametrization of building surface energy balance is not included in the model. To account for the realistic implementation of urban canopy processes in complex urban geometry we enhanced PALM model including some of the most important urban canopy mechanisms. In order to evaluate the new module, we performed a field experiment, during which temperature of building facades and road surface on Prague crossroad were measured with infrared camera, during a summer heat wave episode. Newly developed module will be used to estimate the effects of different adaptation measures (planting tree alleys, changing wall paint colors), on air quality and thermal comfort of city inhabitants.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10509 - Meteorology and atmospheric sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

HARMO 2016 - 17th International Conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes, Proceedings

ISBN

9789639931107

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

362-366

Publisher name

Hungarian Meteorological Service

Place of publication

Budapest

Event location

Budapest

Event date

May 9, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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