Urban climates / Timothy R. Oke, University of British Columbia [and three others].
Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xxi, 525 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780521849500
- 0521849500
- 9781107429536
- 1107429536
- 551.6/6091732 23
- QC981.7.U7 O34 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Concepts -- Methods -- Airflow -- Radiation -- Energy Balance -- Urban Heat Island -- Water -- Atmospheric Moisture -- Clouds And Precipitation -- Air Pollution -- Geographical Controls -- Cities and Global Climate Change -- Climates of Humans -- Climate-Sensitive Design.
This book explains the physical principles governing the creation of distinct urban climates, such as airflow around buildings, the heat island, precipitation modification and air pollution, and it then illustrates how this knowledge can be applied to moderate the undesirable consequences of urban development and help create more sustainable and resilient cities. With urban climate science now a fully-fledged field, this book fulfills the need to bring together the disparate parts of climate research on cities into a coherent framework.