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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Urban Heat Island Simulation and Monitoring in the Hot and Humid Climate Cities of Guayaquil and Durán, Ecuador

Authors : Jaqueline Litardo, Massimo Palme, Mercy Borbor-Cordova, Rommel Caiza, Rubén Hidalgo-Leon, María del Pilar Cornejo-Rodriguez, Guillermo Soriano

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Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

Urban Heat Island (UHI) research has been increasingly impacting science during the last decades. As most of humanity is living in cities, urban climatology is a consolidating field that attract more and more interest with time. Higher temperature in cities are involved in many processes and have impacts on energy needs, thermal comfort, public health and air pollution. Especially in tropical climates, where temperature and humidity ranges are high per se, the impact of urbanization processes can be even deeper. Despite of the high urbanization rates and the climate in which most populated cities of Latin-America are placed, there are only few studies that estimates UHI intensities and proposes mitigation strategies conducted in the region up to now. Here we will briefly look at the most important studies on UHI for tropical cities, then we will describe the pioneer studies that we conducted in the cities of Guayaquil and Durán, Ecuador.

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Metadata
Title
Urban Heat Island Simulation and Monitoring in the Hot and Humid Climate Cities of Guayaquil and Durán, Ecuador
Authors
Jaqueline Litardo
Massimo Palme
Mercy Borbor-Cordova
Rommel Caiza
Rubén Hidalgo-Leon
María del Pilar Cornejo-Rodriguez
Guillermo Soriano
Copyright Year
2021
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Book
Urban Heat Island (UHI) Mitigation

Print ISBN: 978-981-334-049-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-334-050-3

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4050-3_7