Urban Green and Blue Infrastructure—Climate Change and Prediction
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2023) | Viewed by 344
Special Issue Editor
Interests: advanced building envelopes; data analytics; numerical optimisation; stochastic building energy modelling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urban green–blue infrastructures are crucial for mitigating the heat island effect, reducing stormwater runoff, and improving air quality, among other benefits. However, the impacts of climate change, such as the escalation of temperatures, alteration of rainfall patterns, and increase in extreme weather conditions, pose new challenges for urban green and blue infrastructure. There is a need for new approaches that can help to design, implement, and monitor urban green and blue infrastructures that are resilient to the impacts of climate change, and predict their performance in changing environmental conditions.
This Special Issue aims to explore how advanced technologies can be used to enhance resilience and maximise the co-benefits of green–blue infrastructures in the face of these challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Advanced technologies for the design, planning, monitoring, and management of urban green–blue infrastructures, including geographic information systems, building information modelling, remote sensing, etc.
- Computational tools and AI-based techniques to simulate and predict the performance and impacts of urban green–blue infrastructures during heatwaves.
- Analysis and quantification of the synergistic cooling effects of urban green–blue infrastructures on the micro-thermal environment.
- Assessment of the potential impact of urban green–blue infrastructures on air and water quality, such as the role of these systems in improving local air quality and mitigating stormwater runoff.
Dr. Chaoqun Zhuang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- urban green–blue infrastructures
- heat island effect
- air quality
- cooling benefits
- thermal comfort
- climate change
