Urban Climate Modeling and Assessment in Support of Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Air, Climate Change and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2018) | Viewed by 5907
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Interests: urban environment; anthropogenic carbon emissions; urban climate; sustainable energy; GIScience
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Interests: urban environment; air pollution; thermal environment in cities; climate change adaptation
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Interests: regional climate modeling; urban climate
2. National Meteorological Administration, 013686 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: urban climate; climate change and climate risks; biometeorology; historical meteorology
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Dear Colleagues,
The intensification of human activities has significantly increased greenhouse gas emissions and anthropogenic heat discharge in urban areas. Urbanization, not only changes the spatiotemporal patterns of the urban thermal environment, but also has implications for regional and global climate. Renewable energy development, emissions reduction and heat island mitigation are key targets of urban sustainability policies. To accomplish these targets, further efforts should be made toward a better understanding of the urban climate and energy system at different scales. For example, at the local scale, more accurate estimation of the various components of the urban energy system, such as solar radiation, energy supply and energy consumption, can better support city-level energy planning and, at the regional scale, better quantification of the effects of land use/land cover (LUCC) change on the urban thermal environment, can facilitate high-level policy making.
Dr. Jianming LiangProf. Dr. Constantinos Cartalis
Prof. Dr. Lei Jiang
Dr. Sorin Cheval
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Urban climate
- Urban energy
- Urban metabolism
- Urban fluxes
- Urban heat island
- Renewable energy
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- LUCC change
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