Frontal area index: A review of calculation methods and application in the urban environment

The effect of extremely low sky view factor on land surface temperatures in urban residential areas

(2022) Junsik Kim et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

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

(2022) Yueyang He et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Obstacles influence on existing urban canyon ventilation and air pollutant concentration: A review of potential measures

(2022) Riccardo Buccolieri et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Assessing the environmental benefits of urban ventilation corridors: A case study in Hefei, China

(2022) Yunhao Fang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Identifying urban ventilation corridors through quantitative analysis of ventilation potential and wind characteristics

(2022) Weiwu Wang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Intelligent Mining of Urban Ventilated Corridor Based on Digital Surface Model under the Guidance of K-Means

(2022) Chaoxiang Chen et al.   ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Wind environment assessment and planning of urban natural ventilation corridors using GIS: Shenzhen as a case study

(2022) Xiaoqian Liu et al.   Urban Climate

Exploration of urbanization characteristics and their effect on the urban thermal environment in Chengdu, China

(2022) Wenping Yu et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Effects of residential building height, density, and floor area ratios on indoor thermal environment in Singapore

(2022) Jiayu Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Quantitative analysis and prediction of urban heat island intensity on urban-rural gradient: A case study of Shanghai

(2022) Yi Yang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

An Investigation of the Quantitative Correlation between Urban Spatial Morphology Indicators and Block Wind Environment

(2021) Di Wei et al.   Atmosphere

Suitability of human settlements in mountainous areas from the perspective of ventilation: a case study of the main urban area of Chongqing

(2021) Xue Luo et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Effective Range and Driving Factors of the Urban Ventilation Corridor Effect on Urban Thermal Comfort at Unified Scale with Multisource Data

(2021) Weiling Liu et al.   Remote Sensing

Impacts of urban spatial layout and scale on local climate: A case study in Beijing

(2021) Yonghong Liu et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Quantitative city ventilation evaluation for urban canopy under heat island circulation without geostrophic winds: Multi-scale CFD model and parametric investigations

(2021) Yi Jing et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

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

(2021) Pin Wang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Complexity of the relationship between 2D/3D urban morphology and the land surface temperature: a multiscale perspective

(2021) Yu Liu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Urban morphology in China: Dataset development and spatial pattern characterization

(2021) Huidong Li et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Spatializing the roughness length of heterogeneous urban underlying surfaces to improve the WRF simulation-part 1: A review of morphological methods and model evaluation

(2021) Chong Shen et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Quantifying 3D building form effects on urban land surface temperature and modeling seasonal correlation patterns

(2021) Huifang Li et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Wind tunnel study on influences of morphological parameters on drag coefficient of horizontal non-uniform buildings

(2021) Biao Li et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Influences of street aspect ratios and realistic solar heating on convective heat transfer and ventilation in full-scale 2D street canyons

(2021) Hongyu Yang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Contribution of urban ventilation to the thermal environment and urban energy demand: Different climate background perspectives

(2021) Jun Yang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Intelligent Mining of Urban Ventilation Corridors Based on High-Precision Oblique Photographic Images

(2021) Chaoxiang Chen et al.   SENSORS

To what extent can urban ventilation features cool a compact built-up environment during a prolonged heatwave? A mesoscale numerical modelling study for Hong Kong

(2021) Yu Ting Kwok et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Impact of High-Density Urban Built Environment on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Case Study of Jing’an District, Shanghai

(2020) Lan Wang et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Threshold friction velocities influenced by standing crop residue in the inland Pacific Northwest, USA

(2020) Huawei Pi et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

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

(2020) Chao Yuan et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Numerical studies of passive and reactive pollutant dispersion in high-density urban models with various building densities and height variations

(2020) Yong Zhang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Effects of frontal area density on outdoor thermal comfort and air quality

(2020) Zhengtong Li et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Effects of building density on land surface temperature in China: Spatial patterns and determinants

(2020) Jinchao Song et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Scaled outdoor experimental studies of urban thermal environment in street canyon models with various aspect ratios and thermal storage

(2020) Guanwen Chen et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Wind Loading on Scaled Down Fractal Tree Models of Major Urban Tree Species in Singapore

(2020) Woei-Leong Chan et al.   Forests

A New method of simulating urban ventilation corridors using circuit theory

(2020) Peng Xie et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Identification of pedestrian-level ventilation corridors in downtown Beijing using large-eddy simulations

(2020) Weiwen Wang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Association of urban built environment and socioeconomic factors with suicide mortality in high-density cities: A case study of Hong Kong

(2020) Pin Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Neighbourhood-Scale Flow Regimes and Pollution Transport in Cities

(2020) Edward J. Bannister et al.   BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY

Critical standing crop residue amounts for wind erosion control in the inland Pacific Northwest, USA

(2020) Huawei Pi et al.   CATENA

Gustiness in thermally-stratified urban turbulent boundary-layer flows and the influence of surface roughness

(2020) G. Duan et al.   JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS

A preliminary study on the influence of Beijing urban spatial morphology on near-surface wind speed

(2020) Yonghong Liu et al.   Urban Climate

Classification and pedestrian-level wind environment assessment among Tianjin's residential area based on numerical simulation

(2020) Tong Ma et al.   Urban Climate

Local climate zone ventilation and urban land surface temperatures: Towards a performance-based and wind-sensitive planning proposal in megacities

(2019) Jun Yang et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Sea breeze cooling capacity and its influencing factors in a coastal city

(2019) Yifei Zhou et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Developing a rapid method for 3-dimensional urban morphology extraction using open-source data

(2019) Chao Ren et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Validation of Simplified Urban-Canopy Aerodynamic Parametrizations Using a Numerical Simulation of an Actual Downtown Area

(2018) N. Ramirez et al.   BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY

Experimental Investigation on Shear-Stress Partitioning for Flexible Plants with Approximately Zero Basal-to-Frontal Area Ratio in a Wind Tunnel

(2018) Liqiang Kang et al.   BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY

Identifying critical building morphological design factors of street-level air pollution dispersion in high-density built environment using mobile monitoring

(2018) Yuan Shi et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

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

(2018) Weiwen Wang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Drag distributions of non-uniform buildings from surface pressure measurements in wind tunnel

(2018) Biao Li et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Detection and evaluation of a ventilation path in a mountainous city for a sea breeze: The case of Dalian

(2018) Fei Guo et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

A new semi-empirical model for estimating the drag coefficient of the vertical random staggered arrays using LES

(2018) Ahmad Faiz Mohammad et al.   JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS

High-resolution dataset of urban canopy parameters for Beijing and its application to the integrated WRF/Urban modelling system

(2018) Xiaodong He et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Wind driven natural ventilation in the idealized building block arrays with multiple urban morphologies and unique package building density

(2017) Shuo-Jun Mei et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

A new urban canopy parameterization scheme for wind environment simulations

(2017) Cuie Duan et al.   INDOOR AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

A semi-empirical model for the effect of trees on the urban wind environment

(2017) Chao Yuan et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Urban morphology detection and computation for urban climate research

(2017) Yong Xu et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Detection of ventilation corridors using a spatio-temporal approach aided by remote sensing data

(2017) Marzena Wicht et al.   European Journal of Remote Sensing

Effect of flexible and rigid roughness elements on aeolian sand transport

(2016) Abulitipu Abulaiti et al.   ARID LAND RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT

A modelling-mapping approach for fine-scale assessment of pedestrian-level wind in high-density cities

(2016) Chao Yuan et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Influence of Urban Spatial Morphology on Air Temperature Variance

(2016) Guixin Zhang et al.   CURRENT SCIENCE

Developing a thermal atlas for climate-responsive urban design based on empirical modeling and urban morphological analysis

(2016) Feng Yang et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Developing Street-Level PM2.5 and PM10 Land Use Regression Models in High-Density Hong Kong with Urban Morphological Factors

(2016) Yuan Shi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A quantitative method to detect the ventilation paths in a mountainous urban city for urban planning: A case study in Guizhou, China

(2016) Shi Ling Chen et al.   INDOOR AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Turbulent flow over transitionally rough surfaces with varying roughness densities

(2016) M. MacDonald et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

A numerical study of microburst-like wind load acting on different block array configurations using an impinging jet model

(2016) Tze Siang Sim et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUIDS AND STRUCTURES

On the Relationship between Traffic Noise Resistance and Urban Morphology in Low-Density Residential Areas

(2015) Yiying Hao et al.   ACTA ACUSTICA UNITED WITH ACUSTICA

A LiDAR method of canopy structure retrieval for wind modeling of heterogeneous forests

(2015) Louis-Étienne Boudreault et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

The impact of building density and building height heterogeneity on average urban albedo and street surface temperature

(2015) Xinyan Yang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

On the relationship between the sky view factor and the land surface temperature derived by Landsat-8 images in Bari, Italy

(2015) M. Scarano et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Simulation of Forest Evapotranspiration Using Time-Series Parameterization of the Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) over the Qilian Mountains

(2015) Xin Tian et al.   Remote Sensing

Characterizing urban heat island in Montreal (Canada)—Effect of urban morphology

(2015) A.G. Touchaei et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Influence of mesoscale urban morphology on the spatial noise attenuation of flyover aircrafts

(2014) Yiying Hao et al.   APPLIED ACOUSTICS

Determination of aerodynamic parameters of urban surfaces: methods and results revisited

(2014) A. F. Mohammad et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

CFD simulation of near-field pollutant dispersion in the urban environment: A review of current modeling techniques

(2013) Yoshihide Tominaga et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

A New Aerodynamic Parametrization for Real Urban Surfaces

(2013) Manabu Kanda et al.   BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY

Wind tunnel study on the morphological parameterization of building non-uniformity

(2013) Biao Li et al.   JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS

Equations for the Drag Force and Aerodynamic Roughness Length of Urban Areas with Random Building Heights

(2012) Richard D. Crago et al.   BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY

Aerodynamic Parameters of a UK City Derived from Morphological Data

(2012) J. T. Millward-Hopkins et al.   BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY

The influence of building height variability on pollutant dispersion and pedestrian ventilation in idealized high-rise urban areas

(2012) Jian Hang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Analysis of airflow over building arrays for assessment of urban wind environment

(2012) Azli Abd Razak et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Local Climate Zones for Urban Temperature Studies

(2012) I. D. Stewart et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Spatial variability of frontal area index and its relationship with urban heat island intensity

(2012) Man Sing Wong et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Flow and Transport in Regions with Aquatic Vegetation

(2011) Heidi M. Nepf   Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Estimating Aerodynamic Parameters of Urban-Like Surfaces with Heterogeneous Building Heights

(2011) J. T. Millward-Hopkins et al.   BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY

A Study of the Ventilation and Thermal Comfort of the Environment Surrounding a New University Building under Construction

(2011) W. Zhang et al.   INDOOR AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

CFD modeling of pollution dispersion in a street canyon: Comparison between LES and RANS

(2011) Yoshihide Tominaga et al.   JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS

A study of the “wall effect” caused by proliferation of high-rise buildings using GIS techniques

(2011) Man Sing Wong et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

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

Estimating zero-plane displacement height and aerodynamic roughness length using synthesis of LiDAR and SPOT-5 data

(2011) X. Tian et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Aeolian sediment transport over vegetation canopies: A wind tunnel study with live plants

(2011) Katrin Burri et al.   Aeolian Research

Aerodynamic Parameters of Urban Building Arrays with Random Geometries

(2010) Sheikh Ahmad Zaki et al.   BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY

A simple method for designation of urban ventilation corridors and its application to urban heat island analysis

(2010) Man Sing Wong et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

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

Estimating aerodynamic resistance of rough surfaces using angular reflectance

(2010) Adrian Chappell et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Air ventilation impacts of the “wall effect” resulting from the alignment of high-rise buildings

(2009) S.H.L. Yim et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Estimating Urban Canopy Parameters Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Data

(2009) Indumathi Jeyachandran et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Parameterisation of aerodynamic roughness over boreal, cool- and warm-temperate forests

(2008) Taro Nakai et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Detection of ventilation paths using high-resolution roughness parameter mapping in a large urban area

(2008) T. Gál et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Spatial variability of air temperature and appropriate resolution for satellite‐derived air temperature estimation

(2008) J. E. Nichol et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Wind tunnel tests on the relationship between building density and pedestrian-level wind velocity: Development of guidelines for realizing acceptable wind environment in residential neighborhoods

(2007) Tetsu Kubota et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT