The majority of the world’s population live in environments with artificially weakened wind as buildings in urban areas form wind-breaks and reduce wind speeds. Anthropogenic heat is also generated and during the summer dense urban areas suffer from the urban heat island effect, a known urban climate problem. This book discusses how to evaluate the urban wind environment, including ventilation performance and thermal comfort. This book is organized in two parts; Wind Environment and the Urban Environment and Criteria for Assessing Breeze Environments. It includes chapters on sea breeze in urban areas; thermal adaptation and the effect of wind on thermal comfort; health risk of exposures; pollutant transport in dense urban areas; legal regulations for urban ventilation and new criteria for assessing the local wind environment.
Keywords: urban wind environments, urban heat island, urban climate, land use change, thermal comfort, risk assessment, urban air pollution, urban ventilation
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789400798465
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-94-007-9846-5
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- Erscheinungstermin: 24.02.2014
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 2012
- Serie: Springer Geography
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Previously published in hardcover
- Gewicht: 324 g
- Seiten: 198
- Format (B x H x T): 155 x 235 x 12 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
