Previous measurements (Del Rio et al. 2019) have confirmed the formation of cool summer microclimates through a combination of passive cooling elements (i.e., evaporative cooling louver, vegetation, and sunscreen) in semi-outdoor building spaces in J...
This study presents and validates a modular Internet of Farming (IoF) sensing architecture designed for high-fidelity microclimate monitoring to address the spatial biases in reference evapotranspiration (ET0) estimation for precision viticulture. De...
Maintaining the optimal microclimate in broiler houses is crucial for bird productivity, yet enabling efficient temperature control remains a significant challenge. This study developed and validated a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model to pred...
Land use/land cover (LULC) maps are now being used across disciplines for many different types of applications, e.g., to analyze urban heat islands or rainfall-runoff dynamics. Traditional map accuracy metrics are limited in this regard, as they only...
Life quality in urban contexts is related to several interconnected factors. Lots of innovative technologies allow for the gathering of real-time information, which is helpful for analysing and interpreting significant urban dynamics and citizens&rsq...
The city of Abu Dhabi is growing every year in population, urban extent and energy demand. This research focuses on the application of two simulation programs to estimate changes in urban climate associated with continued development in Abu Dhabi: Th...
The heating load of residential buildings is closely related to the local microclimate. However, there is a lack of quantitative indicators for assessing the impact of the outdoor microclimate on building heating loads in Lhasa residential buildings....
Urban parks, as an important component of urban green spaces, play a crucial role in improving the urban environment and enhancing residents’ quality of life. This review summarizes the main content and research progress of urban park microclim...
Urban trees have been recognized as having different impacts on the microclimate and thermal comfort. Therefore, this study conducted on-site measurement and simulation to explore and clarify how trees impact the microclimate, thermal comfort, and fa...
This paper considers microclimate to be one of the main contributors to thermal comfort in educational buildings. The influence of microclimate on well-being and productivity is considered. The role of microclimatic parameters is assessed from the pe...
With the frequent occurrence of extreme weather in various parts of the world, people have begun to reflect on the scientific rationality of the means of global climate change governance. How to effectively respond to the hazards caused by extreme we...
In evaluating energy consumption in building complexes, the influence of urban microclimate variations—primarily driven by the urban heat island (UHI) effect—is often overlooked, leading to modeling inaccuracies. This study develops a num...
In the validation of microclimate simulation software, the comparison of simulation results with on-site measurements is a common practice. To ensure reliable validation, it is crucial to utilize high-quality temperature sensors with a deviation smal...
Accurate values for the climatic conditions in an air cavity, hereby called the microclimate, are crucial when calculating and simulating the performance of a ventilated roof and façade system. The climatic stress of its components and their m...
High piglet pre-weaning mortality rates can be attributed to poor creep area microclimate resulting in negative productivity, welfare, and economic consequences. A piglet mechanistic steady-state thermal balance model was developed using previous mod...
This study investigated the synergistic effects of vegetation configurations and microclimate factors on seasonal thermal comfort in a semi-enclosed university courtyard in Wuhan, located in China’s Hot Summer and Cold Winter climate zone (K&ou...
With rapid advancements in industrialization and urbanization, Beijing is increasingly facing severe urban heat island effects and air pollution, particularly from haze. Urban parks play a vital role in improving the local microclimate and facilitati...
The indoor microclimate conditions of historical libraries play a pivotal role in ensuring the long-term preservation of their valuable collections, while also influencing the comfort and well-being of staff and visitors. These two objectives may be...
Urban design that improves microclimate can significantly enhance the ecological livability of human settlements, while the climate-adaptive wisdom of applying local water-net landscapes to modern urban renewal requires further validation. To investi...
Urban irrigation is an essential process in land–atmosphere interactions. It is one of the uncertain parameters of urban hydrology due to various microclimates. This study investigated the microclimate effects and irrigation water requirements...
This paper describes the analysis of electrodermal activity (EDA) in the context of students’ scholastic activity. Taking a multidisciplinary, citizen science and maker-centric approach, low-cost, bespoken wearables, such as a mini weather stat...
Sustainable development in cities has gained popularity due to the emergence of numerous urban challenges in harsh environments. Selecting an accurate turbulence model in CFD is crucial for assessing the outdoor environment. Among the widely used mic...
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Collecting a fine scale of microclimate data can help to determine how physical characteristics (e.g., solar radiation, albedo, sky view factor, vegetation) contribute to human exposure to ground and air temperatures. These data also suggest how urba...
Starting from historical environmental records of the Benicalap neighbourhood in Valencia, this paper presents an energy model contributing to the assessment of carbon-neutral city policies for several nature-based solution (NBS) pilots extended to t...
Urban squares are an important part of a city’s overall spatial environment. However, many urban squares lack rational designs, causing the thermal environment to deteriorate. To ensure sustainable urban development, urban square microclimates...
This paper explores the flow structure, mean/turbulent statistical characteristics of the vector field and entrainment of round jets issued from a smooth contracting nozzle at low nozzle exit velocities (1.39–6.44 m/s). The motivation of the st...
Dense tropical cities face increasing outdoor heat stress and require reliable microclimate modelling tools to support climate-responsive urban planning. However, the performance of these models remains insufficiently documented under tropical condit...
Viral and fungal diseases of greenhouse strawberries lead to significant crop losses, while traditional uniform spraying schemes do not account for the actual distribution of infection foci or changes in the microclimate. This paper proposes an integ...
In the context of waterfront-space design, this study examines the impact of plant enclosures and the ratio of water bodies to green spaces on the microclimate, aiming to enhance the climate environment and mitigate urban heat. Utilizing Fujian Agric...
The preventive conservation of ground-level archaeological sites requires not only protection from direct weathering but also effective control of the surrounding microclimate. Conventional archaeological coverings generally fail to provide adequate...
Outdoor public spaces that provide a comfortable microclimate significantly contribute to urban livability. However, more elaborate investigations are needed to enhance the research-based design of landscape spatial form for optimal thermal comfort p...
The support and development of the primary agri-food sector is receiving increasing attention. The complexity of modern farming issues has lead to the widespread penetration of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Decision Support Systems (DSS). IPM DSSs...
Digital twins (DTs) are increasingly used in controlled-environment agriculture to model microclimates and drive energy-efficient control. However, long-term drift and seasonal variability require continuous recalibration and controller retuning. We...
The periodic stabilized regime is the condition where the temperature of each point of a certain environment varies following a periodic law. This phenomenon occurs in many practical applications, such as passive or ancient buildings not equipped wit...
Green roofs have been recognized as an effective sustainable design tool to mitigate urban heat island (UHI) effects. Previous studies have identified green-roof benefits in cooling and energy-conservation at the building scale, with limited explorat...
Optimum microclimate parameters, including air temperature (T), relative humidity (RH) and vapor pressure deficit (VPD) that are uniformly distributed inside greenhouse crop production systems are essential to prevent yield loss and fruit quality. Th...
We developed a microscale airflow modeling system with detailed building and terrain data to better understand the urban microclimate. Building shapes and heights, and terrain elevation data were integrated to construct a high-resolution urban surfac...
Urban microclimate modelling, both numerical and in the laboratory, has strong implications in many relevant health and life-style management issues e.g., in studies for assessment and forecast of air quality (for both outdoor and, as boundary condit...
Excess heat in urban environments is an increasing threat to human health and well-being. Furthermore, the increasingly important phenomenon of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) is exacerbating problems of livability in urban centers. Hence, there should b...
Cymbidium insigne is a tropical rare orchid and a Grade I protected wild plant in China, highly sensitive to understory microclimate. Based on 9 occurrence records from Hainan Island and 9 core environmental variables, we used a maximum entropy (MaxE...
Economic growths lead to population increases in large cities. This has brought about the growing necessity for apartment housing which has resulted in higher density populations living in high-rise apartment complexes. Therefore, the urban microclim...
In diabetic patients, optimised plantar health necessitates meticulously designed hosiery. These specialised socks facilitate a healthy microclimate at the skin–textile interface. This requires that stable conditions of temperature and humidity...
Outdoor thermal comfort in hot, arid regions critically influences campus open-space use and the sustainability of university campuses, including reduced cooling energy demand and enhanced livability, yet validated integrated assessments remain scarc...
Optimizing outdoor thermal environments is essential for sustainable urban development and spatial resilience. Existing urban microclimate studies generally adopt the 1.5 m pedestrian height to represent outdoor thermal conditions. However, this wide...
In museums, poor microclimate conditions, especially large changes in relative humidity and temperature, can lead to serious deterioration of the exhibits. Properly designed heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems for precise contro...
The increase of the urban warming phenomenon all over the world is gaining increasing attention from scientists as well as planners and policymakers due to its adverse effects on energy consumption, health, wellbeing, and air pollution. The protectio...
Under global climate change and rapid urbanization, urban heat island and dry island effects threaten residents’ thermal comfort and public health, making microclimate regulation by urban green spaces a core issue. However, the interaction betw...
Greenhouse microclimate regulation is challenging due to nonlinear coupling among temperature, humidity, soil moisture, and light intensity, which limits the effectiveness of conventional threshold-based and PID control strategies under time-varying...
Controlling the microclimate is vital in fruit fly breeding. This project develops an automated IoT system for monitoring and controlling temperature and relative humidity in chambers, optimizing processes through accessible and flexible technology....
This research aims to optimize the use of trees to enhance microclimate conditions, which has become necessary because of climate change and its impacts, especially for cities suffering from extreme heat stress, such as Cairo. It considers elements o...
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