Urban Climates
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (879 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1107429536 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 582 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Comprehensive, clearly written, richly illustrated, and with broad ranging examples and well documented sources of data, this is a book that should be read by researchers, students and practitioners interested in the urban environment, urban planning and design, and smart cities. Its presentation makes it accessible, valuable and insightful, to those new to the field as well as established experts. Brazel, Arizona State UniversityAdvance praise: 'Monumental summary of urban climate, which could not be written by any other team of researchers than this, headed by the international face of the field for the last fifty years, Tim Oke. The four authors, all world renowned physical geographers and urban climatologists, have created the ultimate book on urban climate for gaining this understanding, meant primarily for upper undergraduate and beginning graduate levels and for those in other related fields, such as urban
The book begins with an outline of what constitutes an urban ecosystem. It develops a comprehensive terminology for the subject using scale and surface classification as key constructs. It 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. It is an ideal resource for students and researchers in fields such as climatology, urban hydrology, air quality, environmental engineering and urban design.. With urban climate science now a fully-fledged field, this timely book fulfills the need to bring together the disparate parts of climate research on cities into a coherent fra
He founded and was the first President of the International Association for Urban Climate. Christen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and in the Atmospheric Science Program at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, where he teaches fundamentals in weather, climate, climate change and urban system sciences. A. He develops new methods to quantify, attribute and model the exchange of en