2001 Volume 45 Pages 265-270
The purpose of this study is to clarify the role of forest in urban area from a viewpoint of urban environment by observing the leaf temperature and micrometeorological factors, such as air temperature, wind speed, humidity, solar radiation, soil heat, and CO2 concentration. In the midsummer of August 2000, the micrometeorological observation was carried out at Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens (in Bunkyo-ku Tokyo, Japan) for a week. The following results were obtained: 1) In the daytime, the leaf temperature rapidly lowered, when some critical conditions were exceeded. In the nighttime, the air and leaf temperature were almost the same. 2) When the flux of solar radiation increased above about 400W/m2, the leaf temperature lowered linearly with it. 3) Within VPD (vapor pressure deficit) became higher than 4hPa, the leaf temperature rapidly lowered further than the air temperature. 4) Simultaneously with this, the carbon dioxide concentration began to lower.
