Impact of Anthropogenic Heat on Urban Environment: A Case Study of Singapore with High-Resolution Gridded Data

• Published in: Atmosphere Vol. 14; no. 10; p. 1499
• Main Authors: Wang, Ao, Li, Xian-Xiang, Xin, Rui, Chew, Lup Wai
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.10.2023
• Subjects: Air conditioning; Air temperature; Analysis; Anthropogenic factors; anthropogenic heat; Atmospheric temperature; Boundary layer height; Boundary layers; Breezes; built environment; Components; Energy consumption; Enthalpy; Environmental aspects; Heat; Heat flux; Heat transfer; High resolution; Human beings; Human influences; Humidity; Industrial buildings; Influence on nature; Land breezes; Land use; Metabolism; Mitigation; Overheating; Rain; Relative humidity; Roads & highways; sea/land breezes; Seasons; Sensible heat; Sensible heat flux; Sensible heat transfer; Spatial discrimination; Spatial resolution; Temperature; Temperature effects; Temperature rise; Temporal resolution; Urban areas; urban canopy model; Urban climates; Urban climatology; Urban environments; urban heat island; Urban heat islands; Urban land use; Weather; Wind; Wind speed; WRF model; Singapore

Anthropogenic heat (AH) emissions have great impacts on urban climate. AH is usually spatially heterogeneous and depends on the urban land use type. Studies using high-resolution gridded data that can resolve spatially heterogeneous AH are still scarce. The present study uses AH data of a high spati...