J 2016

GIS-based delineation of local climate zones: The case of medium-sized Central European cities.

GELETIČ, Jan a Michal LEHNERT

Základní údaje

Originální název

GIS-based delineation of local climate zones: The case of medium-sized Central European cities.

Autoři

GELETIČ, Jan (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí) a Michal LEHNERT (203 Česká republika)

Vydání

Moravian Geographical Reports, Brno, AV ČR, Institute of Geonics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 2016, 1210-8812

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10500 1.5. Earth and related environmental sciences

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 2.149

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/16:00090908

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

UT WoS

000391948400001

Klíčová slova anglicky

GIS; local climatic zone; LULC; urban climates; urban landscape; Czech Republic

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 28. 3. 2017 17:24, Ing. Andrea Mikešková

Anotace

V originále

Stewart and Oke (2012) recently proposed the concept of Local Climate Zones (LCZ) to describe the siting of urban meteorological stations and to improve the presentation of results amongst researchers. There is now a concerted effort, however, within the field of urban climate studies to map the LCZs across entire cities, providing a means to compare the internal structure of urban areas in a standardized way and to enable the comparison of cities. We designed a new GIS-based LCZ mapping method for Central European cities and compiled LCZ maps for three selected medium-sized Central European cities: Brno, Hradec Králové, and Olomouc (Czech Republic). The method is based on measurable physical properties and a clearly defined decision-making algorithm. Our analysis shows that the decision-making algorithm for defining the percentage coverage for individual LCZs showed good agreement (in 79 - 89% of cases) with areas defined on the basis of expert knowledge. When the distribution of LCZs on the basis of our method and the method of Bechtel and Daneke (2012) was compared, the results were broadly similar; however, considerable differences occurred for LCZs 3, 5, 10, D, and E. It seems that Central European cities show a typical spatial pattern of LCZ distribution but that rural settlements in the region also regularly form areas of built-type LCZ classes. The delineation and description of the spatial distribution of LCZs is an important step towards the study of urban climates in a regional setting.