TY - GEN
T1 - Empirical and Numerical Approaches in Urban Microclimate Modeling
T2 - International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering, Management, and Sciences, ICSDEMS 2020
AU - Yola, Lin
AU - Ayegbusi, Olutobi Gbenga
AU - Saiya, Halvina Grasela
AU - Djaja, Komara
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Urban climate modeling indicates a significant development in accomplishing the urgent solutions to the current urban climate change challenge. As the demand for sustainable urban development continue to grow, researchers have derived range of strategies and methodologies to explore the urban issues. Direct field measurements and data collection have been the popular approach for urban microclimate studies. However, in recent times, numerical simulation approaches have become increasingly popular. This study presents the urban microclimate modeling of a tropical outdoor space with dense building blocks using empirical and numerical approaches. This investigation covers the evaluation of air temperature, air movement, and relative humidity. The results revealed that the two approaches are significantly correlated. However, this study points out that numerical modeling is a reliable approach in performing the hypothetical urban microclimate modeling in the high-rise building blocks. The findings therefore suggest that numerical approach is better in the study of Urban Heat Island for strategic mitigation purpose than empirical approach.
AB - Urban climate modeling indicates a significant development in accomplishing the urgent solutions to the current urban climate change challenge. As the demand for sustainable urban development continue to grow, researchers have derived range of strategies and methodologies to explore the urban issues. Direct field measurements and data collection have been the popular approach for urban microclimate studies. However, in recent times, numerical simulation approaches have become increasingly popular. This study presents the urban microclimate modeling of a tropical outdoor space with dense building blocks using empirical and numerical approaches. This investigation covers the evaluation of air temperature, air movement, and relative humidity. The results revealed that the two approaches are significantly correlated. However, this study points out that numerical modeling is a reliable approach in performing the hypothetical urban microclimate modeling in the high-rise building blocks. The findings therefore suggest that numerical approach is better in the study of Urban Heat Island for strategic mitigation purpose than empirical approach.
KW - ENVI-met simulation
KW - Reliability study
KW - Tropical context
KW - Urban configurations
KW - Urban microclimate
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85113790356&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-16-2329-5_7
DO - 10.1007/978-981-16-2329-5_7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85113790356
SN - 9789811623288
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 51
EP - 57
BT - Sustainable Architecture and Building Environment - Proceedings of ICSDEMS 2020
A2 - Yola, Lin
A2 - Nangkula, Utaberta
A2 - Ayegbusi, Olutobi Gbenga
A2 - Awang, Mokhtar
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 8 December 2020 through 9 December 2020
ER -
