Assessing the impact of urban land conversion on local and regional surface climate and its socio-economic consequence
Task 4: Analyzing the building energy demand response and corresponding implications for the wider energy system.
- Urban heat islands (UHIs) in growing cities can have varying degrees of impacts on human health, as well as energy demands for cooling.
- Remote sensing and modeling provide essential information for comprehending and managing urbanization's climate and societal impacts.
- By combining gridded data for temperature, building characteristics, population, and behaviour we are able to model the building energy demand response to UHI
- This demand response can then be used to calculate corresponding changes in power supply and related parameters such as emissions.
