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

Journal

REMOTE SENSING
Volume 13, Issue 9, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs13091783

Keywords

frontal area index; urban ventilation corridor; thermal comfort; the Pearl River Delta

Funding

  1. Key research and development program of the Ministry of science and technology [2016YFB0500801]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51879196, 51790533]
  3. Chinese Universities Scientific Fund [2042019kf0209]

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Urban ventilation corridors play a vital role in improving urban thermal comfort, but their specific impact range remains difficult to quantify due to limited weather stations. Building density and vegetation coverage are key factors that limit the effective range of urban ventilation corridor effects.
Urban ventilation corridors serve as channels of fresh air flow between the city and suburbs, helping to improve the wind and thermal environments and thermal comfort. However, owing to the limited number of weather stations, it is impossible to quantitatively reveal the effective effect range of urban ventilation corridors on urban thermal comfort at the scale of 100 x 100 m, which is optimal for urban ventilation corridors. In this study, we integrated building data, the European Centre for Medium-Range weather forecast data (ECMWF), MOD13Q1, and other multisource data to analyse the effect of urban ventilation corridors on urban thermal comfort at a unified scale of 100 x 100 m. The results showed that ECMWF and Landsat8 data could be used as substitute factors to improve the universal thermal climate index (UTCI) urban spatial resolution. The effective range of urban ventilation corridor effects on the urban surface temperature and urban comfort was <= 1000 m, with building density and vegetation coverage as the main factors limiting this range. Therefore, attention should be paid to the effective range of urban ventilation corridors, the surrounding building density, vegetation coverage, and the rational use of urban ventilation corridors to reduce the energy consumption of air conditioning in summer.

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