Urban climate computational modeling for medium-size Brazilian cities

• Grant number: 07/08097-2
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: March 01, 2008
• End date: February 28, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Architecture and Urbanism Technology
• Principal Investigator: João Roberto Gomes de Faria
• Grantee: João Roberto Gomes de Faria
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação (FAAC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Bauru. Bauru , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research gives the continuity to the previous works developed by this professor in the periods from 1995 to 1997, from 2001 to 2003 and in 2005. In the first one the winds field in the urban-canopy layer was studied; in the second one the possibility of relating air temperatures data in the urban-canopy layer with attributes of homogeneous areas classified by GIS from a satellite set of images was analyzed; in the last one a model of one-dimensional energy balance for local scale was elaborated, with a surface base assembled by GIS. In this aspect, the urban climate is studied in an evolutional way, where each new work tries better explain the relations between it and the urban morphology. The aim of the present research is to incorporate to the previous studies the results of recent works, raised from bibliography. More specifically, the aim is to improve the performance of the previously generated model by incorporating surface data from satellite images treated with techniques of multi-spectral analysis and parameters obtained from relations between city morphologic standards and the respective locally modified climates. The expectative is to generate a model with a friendly interface, a set of input data easily obtained, and the establishment of a routine for use of the model together with satellite images and a SIG, with the final objective of to facilitate its use for not academic people. (AU)