Keywords
urban form
Sky View Factor
urban design
atmospheric stability
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Abstract
Climate change, and its consequences, points out the need of developing strategies for mitigating problems related to urban overheating. This paper aims to examine the influence of urban form, here measured by the Sky View Factor (SVF), on intra-urban temperature in the city of Glasgow, UK, a naturally cold city. A set of 49 measurement points was selected in the city centre, and 31 campaigns, for data collection, were made during the spring and summer of 2013. In order to cover a large area of the city, within a relatively short period of time, the ‘traverse’ method was used on pre-determined routes. Temperature variation was visualized using the software ArcGIS. The results indicate that the maximum intra-urban temperature differences are strongly correlated with atmospheric stability, which suggests that atmospheric stability has a relevant effect on intra-urban temperature variation. The study also indicates, as expected, that the vegetation and the urban cover materials play an important role in influencing the local climate in cold cities. The knowledge on the influence of urban form on local temperature variation can be important in the development of strategies to deal with urban overheating.
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