1996 Volume 40 Pages 255-260
Urbanization in coastal areas has been in progress accompanied by the change of land-use, the concentration of population and consumption of lots of energy. In addition, large-scale reclamation projects have been constructed in Japan. There are therefor isolated and higher temperature areas can be appeared. Such areas are called “heat island” on the basis of the shape in the contour map of atmospheric temperature. In the present study, three dimensional atmospheric numerical experiments with high-order turbulence modelling are performed for examining the effects of urbanization and construction of reclaimed islands on the local climate in coastal urban areas.
