Key Parameters in Urban Form Layout for Weakening Urban Heat Island Intensity and Its Response Mechanism
Huang Huanchun,Yun Yingxia and Zhao Rui
DOI:10.11835/j.issn.1674-4764.2014.05.016
Received September 09, 2013,Revised , Accepted , Available online July 01, 2015
Volume ,2014,Pages 95-102
- Abstract
The relationship between urban form layout and Urban Heat Island (UHI) intensity response mechanism was quantified and the parameter curves was studied. Large-scale analysis and calculation software such as ArcGIS and MATLAB are used and extract Urban Form and inversed UHI, based on the seven times summer TM images of Tianjin between 1992 and 2013. The results show that: Firstly, the double indicators measure for the UHI intensity was proposed, that is, highest UHI temperature value and total UHI warming. Secondly, the UHI intensity increases with the expansion of urban form area; and in general, gross area of urban form is positively correlated with highest UHI temperature value and total UHI warming.Thirdly, dispersion of the urban form and contagion index are not apparently involved with highest UHI temperature, but correlated with total UHI warming.Fourthly, plague area has a positive relationship with UHI intensity; with a single plague over 50 km 2, highest UHI temperature value will grow rapidly by the linear along with the increase of plague and a quadric curve correlation between plague area and total UHI warming is obtained. Fifthly, there was a negative relationship between perimeter-to-area ratio of the plaque and UHI intensity and a S curve correlation between perimeter-to-area ratio of the plaque and highest UHI temperature value. When the ratio is between 0.005 to 0.04, a quadric curve correlation will be formed between perimeter-to-area ratio and highest UHI temperature value. Finally, urban form fractal dimension is positively relevant with UHI intensity and in a linear relationship with highest UHI temperature and a cubic curve relationship with Total UHI warming.