TY - GEN
T1 - An uncoupled pavement-urban canyon model for heat islands
AU - Sen, S.
AU - Roesler, J. R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) are a major environmental consequence of developing urban infrastructure, including pavements. The effect of a specific pavement on the urban environment depends on not just the pavement structure, but also the weather and urban form of the location. To develop a rational approach towards incorporating these variables in UHI analysis, a microscale, uncoupled pavement-urban canyon model was developed and applied on the warmest hour for 30-year representative weather data in Chicago. The UHI intensity was found to vary spatially not just with the aspect ratio of the urban canyon, but also its relative position, as well as the structure of the pavement. Furthermore, future weather scenarios such as warming trends, elevated the UHI intensity.
AB - Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) are a major environmental consequence of developing urban infrastructure, including pavements. The effect of a specific pavement on the urban environment depends on not just the pavement structure, but also the weather and urban form of the location. To develop a rational approach towards incorporating these variables in UHI analysis, a microscale, uncoupled pavement-urban canyon model was developed and applied on the warmest hour for 30-year representative weather data in Chicago. The UHI intensity was found to vary spatially not just with the aspect ratio of the urban canyon, but also its relative position, as well as the structure of the pavement. Furthermore, future weather scenarios such as warming trends, elevated the UHI intensity.
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U2 - 10.1201/9781315159324-13
DO - 10.1201/9781315159324-13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85058100891
SN - 9781138066052
T3 - Pavement Life-Cycle Assessment - Proceedings of the Pavement Life-cycle Assessment Symposium, 2017
SP - 111
EP - 119
BT - Pavement Life-Cycle Assessment - Proceedings of the Pavement Life-cycle Assessment Symposium, 2017
A2 - Al-Qadi, Imad L.
A2 - Ozer, Hasan
A2 - Harvey, John
PB - CRC Press/Balkema
T2 - Symposium on Life-Cycle Assessment of Pavements, Pavement LCA 2017
Y2 - 12 April 2017 through 13 April 2017
ER -