An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0)

• Main Authors: MEILI, Naika, MANOLI, Gabriele, BURLANDO, Paolo, BOU-ZEID, Elie, CHOW, Winston T. L., COUTTS, Andrew M., DALY, Edoardo, NICE, Kerry A., ROTH, Matthias, TAPPER, Nigel J., VELASCO, Erik, VIVONI, Enrique R., FATICHI, Simone
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Environmental Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3043; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4300/viewcontent/gmd_2019_225_pvoa_cc_by.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Increasing urbanization is likely to intensify the urban heat island effect, decrease outdoor thermal comfort and enhance runoff generation in cities. Urban green spaces are often proposed as a mitigation strategy to counteract these adverse effects and many recent developments of urban climate mode...