Numerical simulations of outdoor heat stress index and heat disorder risk in the 23 wards of Tokyo

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 583-597

  Ohashi, Yukitaka ^a   Kikegawa, Yukihiro ^b   Ihara, Tomohiko ^c,d   Sugiyama, Nanami ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b MEISEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heat islands; Numerical analysis modeling; Risk assessment; Urban meteorology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HAZARDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; THERMAL STRESS;

BUILDING ENERGY MODEL; HEAT ISLAND; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGICAL MODEL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; RADIATION ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN METEOROLOGY; WET-BULB GLOBE TEMPERATURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH RISK; HEAT ISLAND; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUMMER; URBAN CLIMATE;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 84896514586     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0127.1     Document Type: Article

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