Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY
Volume 61, Issue 3, Pages 527-539Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-016-1230-z
Keywords
Urban heat island; Urban climate; Environmental justice; Social inequalities; King's Landing; Urban green spaces; MUKLIMO_3 model
Funding
- Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW)
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The numerical model MUKLIMO_3 is used to simulate the urban climate of an imaginary city as an illustrative example to demonstrate that the residential areas with deprived socio-economic conditions can exhibit an enhanced heat load at night, and thus more disadvantageous environmental conditions, compared with the areas of higher socio-economic status. The urban climate modelling simulations differentiate between orographic, natural landscape, building and social effects, where social differences are introduced by selection of location, building type and amount of vegetation. The model results show that the increase of heat load can be found in the areas inhabited by the poor population as a combined effect of natural and anthropogenic factors. The unfavourable location in the city and the building type, consisting of high density, low housing with high fraction of pavement and small amount of vegetation contribute to the formation of excessive heat load. This abstract example shows that the enhancement of urban heat load can be linked to the concept of a socially stratified city and is independent of the historical development of any specific city.
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