LONG-TERM FIXED POINT OBSERVATIONS OF AIR TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY DISTRIBUTIONS IN KUMAMOTO CITY : Part 1 A study on the heat-island phenomenon of a middle-scale city

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify the characteristics of urban climate in local city. This paper describes the result that air temperature and humidity distributions in Kumamoto City are measured for more than one year. The number of measurement points of air temperature and humidity is 160 places and they are measured in the interval for 15 minutes. As the results, air temperature of the high-rise downtown is low in the daytime. As for the humidity distribution, the humidity of the rural zone in the suburbs is high, and the urban area is low.