DOI: 10.5176/2301-394X_ACE15.44
Authors: Aniruddha Subarao Pawar, Sonam Sahu, Mahua Mukherjee
Abstract:
Methods adopted in the investigation of Urban Heat Island (UHI) depend upon the spatial extent of study area and the factors considered in the assessment. The choice of equipment, tools and techniques used in the study, depends upon the method adopted. This paper reports the assessment of thermal behavior of various land use / land cover (LULC) pockets in an educational campus. Documentation of land cover in terms of Built-up: Paved: Vegetation (B:P:V) area ratio for 10 selected sites is carried out; before conducting a mobile (instantaneous) survey through predetermined route and diurnal (as well as seasonal) surveys at each site to record meteorological measurements. A causal relationship has been established between climatic parameters and land use/land cover type. The 3d structure of land cover is observed to be as much responsible for the thermal behavior as its B: P: V proportion.
Keywords: Thermal Environment, Educational Campus, UHI, Micro-Meteorological Measurements, Field Surveys
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