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Abstract Scale modelling is used to determine the relative contribution of heat transfer processes to the nocturnal cooling of urban parks and the characteristic temporal and spatial variation of surface temperature. Validation is achieved using a hardware model-to-numerical model-to-field observation chain of comparisons. For the calm case, modelling shows that urban-park differences of sky view factor (s) and thermal admittance () are the relevant properties governing the park cool ...

Runnalls, K.E. and T.R. Oke, 2000: “Dynamics and controls of the near-surface heat island of Vancouver, B.C.”, Physical Geography, 21, 283-304. Purchase Article

Golden, J.S. and K. Kaloush (2006). Meso-Scale and Micro-Scale Evaluations of Surface Pavement Impacts to the Urban Heat Island Effects. The International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 1, March 2006, 37-52