FEEM-ICCG Joint Seminar: “Coupling remote sensing, statistics and dynamic modelling for an advanced assessment of urban heat island effects in European Cities”

City research has a tradition since more than 100 years. While the most of past city assessments are case studies focusing on specific features or spatial sub-entities of urban systems there is an increasing demand to identify gross effects of agglomerations. Looking on environmental effects, like urban heat islands (UHI), it can be shown that an assessment on the basis of isolated cities is often misleading. It can be shown that city clusters or larger metropolitan areas are often the better basis for a sound analysis. In the talk a remote sensing approach is presented, which easily allows the identification of urban agglomerations. Moreover combining existing data adequately an assessment of a vast multitude of cities is possible. By doing so certain types of UHI can be identified which are represented by a typical annual behavior of urban heat islands. It will be highlighted that the different typologies appear in similar eco-climatologic regions indicating that radiative forcing is not the only cause for urban heat island. Further relevant factors are e.g. infrastructure composition, oasis effects or industrial production. Complementary dynamic modelling helps to assess these effects in more details for singular cities and allows the derivation of concrete adaptation actions.

Speaker: Juergen P. Kropp, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Introduced by: Margaretha Breil, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici

When and Where

Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice - Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice -

23 Oct 2014



Contacts

ICCG events office: [email protected]

Website Organized by
  • ICCG - International Center for Climate Governance
  • FEEM - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Start typing and press Enter to search

Shopping Cart