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Numerical and experimental study of sensitivity factors on heat island of residence community

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How to mitigate the effect of the urban heat island has become a hot research problem in the field of the environment, landscape engineering, and the architectural design. The heat island of the micro-climate, such as the residence community, has much more impact on the people’s life, and should be paid more attentions. In this paper, the experiment and simulation methods are combined to study the heat island of residence community. Four sensitivity factors (wind velocity, underlying and building surface, anthropogenic heating and landscape) are chosen to study their influences on the urban heat island (UHI). The results show that the correlation coefficients of the above four sensitivity factors on the UHI are −0.718, 0.521, 0.251 and −0.229, respectively. And the sequence of the above factors to reduce UHI from strong to weak is wind velocity, underlying and the building surface, anthropogenic heating and the landscape.

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Cao, W., Xue, Y. Numerical and experimental study of sensitivity factors on heat island of residence community. Environ Fluid Mech 17, 1189–1205 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10652-017-9544-x

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