TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of Urbanization on the Urban Heat Island in Fukuoka-Kitakyushu Metropolitan Area, Japan
AU - Kawamoto, Yoichi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) (Grant Number: 25709053). The Doppler LIDAR system was borrowed from EKO Instruments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In the coastal cities, the use of the sea breeze to mitigate the urban heat island phenomenon has attracted attention. To accumulate data for the urban climate in the Fukuoka-Kitakyushu metropolitan area, the fourth largest metropolitan area in Japan and located in coastal area, numerical simulations with a meso-scale meteorological model, the Weather Research and Forecast model (WRF), and upper air observation with Doppler LIDAR were carried out in the summer of 2015, simultaneously. The results of this study suggested that the urbanization process weakened sea breeze penetration.
AB - In the coastal cities, the use of the sea breeze to mitigate the urban heat island phenomenon has attracted attention. To accumulate data for the urban climate in the Fukuoka-Kitakyushu metropolitan area, the fourth largest metropolitan area in Japan and located in coastal area, numerical simulations with a meso-scale meteorological model, the Weather Research and Forecast model (WRF), and upper air observation with Doppler LIDAR were carried out in the summer of 2015, simultaneously. The results of this study suggested that the urbanization process weakened sea breeze penetration.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.10.027
DO - 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.10.027
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85012970349
SN - 1877-7058
VL - 169
SP - 224
EP - 231
JO - Procedia Engineering
JF - Procedia Engineering
T2 - 4th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Island, IC2UHI 2016
Y2 - 30 May 2016 through 1 June 2016
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