Urban ventilation assessment with improved vertical wind profile in high-density cities – Investigations in nighttime extreme heat

The coupled effect of mechanical and thermal conditions on pedestrian-level ventilation in high-rise urban scenarios

(2021) Weiwen Wang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Long-term association between urban air ventilation and mortality in Hong Kong

(2021) Pin Wang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Investigating the urban heat and cool island effects during extreme heat events in high‐density cities: A case study of Hong Kong from 2000 to 2018

(2021) Chao Ren et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Investigations of high-density urban boundary layer under summer prevailing wind conditions with Doppler LiDAR: A case study in Hong Kong

(2021) Yueyang He et al.   Urban Climate

Three-dimensional simulation of building thermal plumes merging in calm conditions: Turbulence model evaluation and turbulence structure analysis

(2021) Shuo-Jun Mei et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Exploring the Synergies between Urban Overheating and Heatwaves (HWs) in Western Sydney

(2020) Hassan Saeed Khan et al.   Energies

Urban heat island circulations over the Beijing-Tianjin region under calm and fair conditions

(2020) Qun Wang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Mitigating intensity of urban heat island by better understanding on urban morphology and anthropogenic heat dispersion

(2020) Chao Yuan et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Urban plume characteristics under various wind speed, heat flux, and stratification conditions

(2020) Qun Wang et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Synergies between urban heat island and heat waves in Seoul: The role of wind speed and land use characteristics

(2020) Jack Ngarambe et al.   PLoS One

A parametric study of angular road patterns on pedestrian ventilation in high-density urban areas

(2019) Yueyang He et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Assessing spatial variability of extreme hot weather conditions in Hong Kong: A land use regression approach

(2019) Yuan Shi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

The impact of extremely hot weather events on all-cause mortality in a highly urbanized and densely populated subtropical city: A 10-year time-series study (2006–2015)

(2019) Dan Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Observation of heat wave effects on the urban air quality and PBL in New York City area

(2019) Yonghua Wu et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Numerical estimation of the external convective heat transfer coefficient for buildings in an urban-like setting

(2019) Anwar Awol et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

CFD simulation of urban microclimate: Validation using high-resolution field measurements

(2019) Nestoras Antoniou et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Air ventilation assessment under unstable atmospheric stratification — A comparative study for Hong Kong

(2018) Weiwen Wang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

New York City Impacts on a Regional Heat Wave

(2018) Luis E. Ortiz et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Assessing methods to extrapolate the vertical wind-speed profile from surface observations in a city centre during strong winds

(2018) Christoph W. Kent et al.   JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS

Is the urban heat island exacerbated during heatwaves in southern Australian cities?

(2018) Cassandra D. W. Rogers et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Creating breathing cities by adopting urban ventilation assessment and wind corridor plan – The implementation in Chinese cities

(2018) Chao Ren et al.   JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS

Impact of heatwave on a megacity: an observational analysis of New York City during July 2016

(2017) Prathap Ramamurthy et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Attribution and mitigation of heat wave-induced urban heat storage change

(2017) Ting Sun et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Characterizing prolonged heat effects on mortality in a sub-tropical high-density city, Hong Kong

(2017) Hung Chak Ho et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Effects of Unstable Stratification on Ventilation in Hong Kong

(2017) Tobias Gronemeier et al.   Atmosphere

Synergies between Urban Heat Island and Heat Waves in Athens (Greece), during an extremely hot summer (2012)

(2017) Dimitra Founda et al.   Scientific Reports

Changes in Wind Speed under Heat Waves Enhance Urban Heat Islands in the Beijing Metropolitan Area

(2016) Dan Li et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

CFD simulation and validation of urban microclimate: A case study for Bergpolder Zuid, Rotterdam

(2015) Y. Toparlar et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Simulations of a Heat-Wave Event in New York City Using a Multilayer Urban Parameterization

(2015) Estatio Gutiérrez et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

High-resolution simulation of heatwave events in New York City

(2015) P. Ramamurthy et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

The effects of horizontal advection on the urban heat island in Birmingham and the West Midlands, United Kingdom during a heatwave

(2014) C. Heaviside et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Buoyant flows in street canyons: Validation of CFD simulations with wind tunnel measurements

(2013) Jonas Allegrini et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Synergistic Interactions between Urban Heat Islands and Heat Waves: The Impact in Cities Is Larger than the Sum of Its Parts*

(2013) Dan Li et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Observations of wind speed profiles over Greater London, UK, using a Doppler lidar

(2013) Daniel R. Drew et al.   JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS

Heat waves in the United States: definitions, patterns and trends

(2012) Tiffany T. Smith et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Effect Modification of the Association between Short-term Meteorological Factors and Mortality by Urban Heat Islands in Hong Kong

(2012) William B. Goggins et al.   PLoS One

Building porosity for better urban ventilation in high-density cities – A computational parametric study

(2011) Chao Yuan et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Impact of two recent extreme heat episodes on morbidity and mortality in Adelaide, South Australia: a case-series analysis

(2011) Monika Nitschke et al.   Environmental Health

CFD simulation for pedestrian wind comfort and wind safety in urban areas: General decision framework and case study for the Eindhoven University campus

(2011) B. Blocken et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Improving the wind environment in high-density cities by understanding urban morphology and surface roughness: A study in Hong Kong

(2011) Edward Ng et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

A Review of the European Summer Heat Wave of 2003

(2010) R. García-Herrera et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Outdoor thermal comfort study in a sub-tropical climate: a longitudinal study based in Hong Kong

(2010) Vicky Cheng et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Sky view factor analysis of street canyons and its implications for daytime intra-urban air temperature differentials in high-rise, high-density urban areas of Hong Kong: a GIS-based simulation approach

(2010) Liang Chen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

City ventilation of Hong Kong at no-wind conditions

(2009) Lina Yang et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Upstream urbanization exacerbates urban heat island effects

(2009) Da-Lin Zhang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The urban heat island and its impact on heat waves and human health in Shanghai

(2009) Jianguo Tan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Air Temperature Distribution and the Influence of Sky View Factor in a Green Singapore Estate

(2009) Wong Nyuk Hien et al.   JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Policies and technical guidelines for urban planning of high-density cities – air ventilation assessment (AVA) of Hong Kong

(2008) Edward Ng   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Efficient Generation of Inflow Conditions for Large Eddy Simulation of Street-Scale Flows

(2008) Zheng-Tong Xie et al.   FLOW TURBULENCE AND COMBUSTION

AIJ guidelines for practical applications of CFD to pedestrian wind environment around buildings

(2008) Yoshihide Tominaga et al.   JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS

Microclimatic modeling of the urban thermal environment of Singapore to mitigate urban heat island

(2008) Rajagopalan Priyadarsini et al.   SOLAR ENERGY