A5024309343- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Noise Effects and Management
- Climate variability and models
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete
- Wind Energy Research and Development
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
- Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics
- Remote-Sensing Image Classification
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Structural Response to Dynamic Loads
- Water resources management and optimization
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Climate change and permafrost
University College Dublin
2016-2025
University of Hertfordshire
2021
Southern Regional Assembly
2017
University of Coimbra
2017
Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers
2017
National University of Ireland
2000-2014
University of California, Los Angeles
1993-1997
University of Bradford
1966-1984
Progress in urban climate science is severely restricted by the lack of useful information that describes aspects form and function cities at a detailed spatial resolution. To overcome this shortcoming we are initiating an international effort to develop World Urban Database Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) gather disseminate consistent manner for areas worldwide. The first step developing WUDAPT description based on Local Climate Zone (LCZ) scheme, which classifies natural landscapes into...
Abstract The World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) is an international community-based initiative to acquire disseminate climate relevant data on the physical geographies of cities for modeling analysis purposes. current lacuna globally consistent information a major impediment urban science toward informing developing mitigation adaptation strategies at scales. WUDAPT consists database portal system; its structured into hierarchy representing different levels detail, are...
Cities are major drivers of environmental change at all scales and especially risk from the ensuing effects, which include poor air quality, flooding heat waves. Typically, these issues studied on a city-by-city basis owing to spatial complexity built landscapes, local topography emission patterns. However, ensure knowledge sharing integrate local-scale processes with regional global scale modelling initiatives, there is pressing need for world-wide database cities that suited studies. In...
Abstract. There is a scientific consensus on the need for spatially detailed information urban landscapes at global scale. These data can support range of environmental services, since cities are places intense resource consumption and waste generation concentrated infrastructure human settlement exposed to multiple hazards natural anthropogenic origin. In face climate change, also required explore future urbanization pathways design strategies in order lock long-term resilience...
A recent re-evaluation of urban heat island (UHI) studies has suggested that the effect may be expressed more meaningfully as a difference between Local Climate Zones (LCZ), defined areas with characteristic dimensions one and several kilometers have distinct effects on climate at both micro-and local-scales (city streets to neighborhoods), rather than adopting traditional method comparing rural air temperatures. This paper reports UHI study in Dublin (Ireland) which maps area into LCZ uses...
Abstract Cities, as places where human activities are concentrated, frequently cited the chief causes of, and solutions to, anthropogenic global change. In this article, I review climatology literature that examines relationship between cities atmospheric changes at all scales. Despite volume of on theme, there is little overall coherence. part, a result varying operational definitions city difficulty in obtaining pertinent information. Rather than attempt to provide comprehensive focuses...
There is an urgent need for more detailed spatial information on cities globally that has been acquired using a standard method to facilitate comparison and the transfer of scientific practical knowledge between places. As part world urban database access portal tools (WUDAPT) initiative, simple workflow developed perform this task. Using freely available satellite imagery (Landsat) software (SAGA), WUDAPT characterizes settlements local climate zone (LCZ) scheme, which decomposes city into...
Abstract Although continental urban areas are relatively small, they major drivers of environmental change at local, regional and global scales. Moreover, especially vulnerable to these changes owing the concentration population their exposure a range hydro-meteorological hazards, emphasizing need for spatially detailed information on urbanized landscapes. These data be consistent in content scale provide holistic description layouts address different user needs. Here, we map United States...
The European Unions (EU) Green Deal plans for a carbon neutral economy by 2050. Achieving this goal will require actions across all economic sectors, especially the building sector, which currently accounts 40% of energy use. Residential use is significant contributor, much it due to an aging, poorly insulated stock, concentrated in urban neighbourhoods. This research focusses on application Urban Building Energy Model (UBEM) support and planned 'renovation wave'. An archetype approach used...
The World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) is a community initiative to collect worldwide data on urban form (i.e., morphology, materials) function use metabolism). This achieved through crowdsourcing, which we define here as the collection of by bounded crowd, composed students. In this process, training for classification structures into Local Climate Zones (LCZ) are obtained, are, like most volunteered geographic information initiatives, unknown quality. study, investigated...
The majority of the population planet (6.6 billion) now live in urban areas, which have distinct impacts upon climate at scales from local to global. This effect is due physical form city (its three-dimensional geometry and material composition) its functions (the day-to-day activity patterns that generate emissions waste heat materials into overlying air). While a substantial body knowledge on science climates has been developed over past fifty years, there little evidence this incorporated...