Network optimization for enhanced resilience of urban heat island measurements

Honjo, T., Yamato, H., Mikami, T. and Grimmond, C. S. B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3166-9415 (2015) Network optimization for enhanced resilience of urban heat island measurements. Sustainable Cities and Society, 19. pp. 319-330. ISSN 2210-6707 doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2015.02.004

Abstract/Summary

The urban heat island is a well-known phenomenon that impacts a wide variety of city operations. With greater availability of cheap meteorological sensors, it is possible to measure the spatial patterns of urban atmospheric characteristics with greater resolution. To develop robust and resilient networks, recognizing sensors may malfunction, it is important to know when measurement points are providing additional information and also the minimum number of sensors needed to provide spatial information for particular applications. Here we consider the example of temperature data, and the urban heat island, through analysis of a network of sensors in the Tokyo metropolitan area (Extended METROS). The effect of reducing observation points from an existing meteorological measurement network is considered, using random sampling and sampling with clustering. The results indicated the sampling with hierarchical clustering can yield similar temperature patterns with up to a 30% reduction in measurement sites in Tokyo. The methods presented have broader utility in evaluating the robustness and resilience of existing urban temperature networks and in how networks can be enhanced by new mobile and open data sources.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/39688
Identification Number/DOI	10.1016/j.scs.2015.02.004
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Publisher	Elsevier
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