ICUC9 - Presentations

9^th International Conference on Urban Climate

jointly with

12^th Symposium on the Urban Environment

CIC meetings

presentations


	OPEN PLENARY
		Adapting Asian Cities to Climate & Urban Climatic Changes Edward Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)
		Influence of cities on clouds, precipitation and thunderstorms Robert Bornstein, Department of Meteorology and Climatology, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA
		Urban Meteorological Networks: An urban climatologists panacea? Dr Lee Chapman Reader in Climate Resilience School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences College of Life & Environmental Sciences University of Birmingham, UK
		Green Infrastructure for Cities Dr. Andy Coutts CRC for Water Sensitive Cities School of Earth, Atmosphere & Environment Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
	CCMA : Climate change mitigation & adaptation in urban environments
		CCMA 1 : Cities inside climate models & downscaling methods
		Towards understanding the hydro-climatic implications of urbanization in the GFDL global climate and earth system modeling framework. Dan Li, Program of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
		Changes of temperature and humidity in areas of city sprawl under climate change conditions. Daniel Argueso, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of New South Wales, Australia
		Modelling the relative impact of land-use change and global climate change on the climate in cities. Hendrik Wouters, KU Leuven, Belgium
		Assessment of three dynamical urban climate downscaling methods Rafiq Hamdi, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Belgium
		CCMA 2 : Climate modeling - methodologies for impacts studies
		Assessing climate change in cities using UrbClim. Hans Hooyberghs, VITO, Belgium
		Investigating the urban climate characteristics of two Hungarian cities with SURFEX/TEB land surface model. Gabriella Zsebeházi, Hungarian Meteorological Service, Hungary
		Near Future Weather Data for Building Energy Simulation in Summer/Winter Seasons in Tokyo Developed by Dynamical Downscaling Method. Yusuke ARIMA, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan
		Modelling the impact of climate change on heat load increase in Central European cities. Anita Bokwa,Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
		URBAN TOURISM IN SOUTHERN EUROPE: assessing present and future climate conditions. Raquel Pinto Machete, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal
		CCMA 3 : Climate impact studies & adaptation strategies
		Characteristics of heat wave impacts for major cities in the US under current and future climate conditions Jason Ching, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America
		Impact of urban form on sunlight availability for urban farming in Asian cities at different latitudes Abel Tablada, NUS, Singapore
		Impacts of a future city master plan on thermal and wind environments in Vinh city, Vietnam Satoru Iizuka, Nagoya University, Japan
		Vulnerability to heat waves : impact of urban expansion scenarios on urban heat island and heat stress in Paris (France) Aude Lemonsu, CNRS/Météo-France, France
		CCMA 4 : UHI mitigation strategies I : urban expansion & climate change links
		Bamboo Structures: A perspective for Climate Change Mitigation Chaaruchandra Korde, GreenBam Solutions, New Delhi; Airef Engineers Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, India
		The Impact of future urbanization on summer climate of Israel SHAI KAPLAN, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
		Urban Climate Adaptation Impacts: A multi-scale assessment to examine modeling robustness Matei Georgescu, Arizona State University, United States of America
		CCMA 5 : UHI mitigation strategies II : urban planning
		An urban model for analysing thermal effects dependent on spatial parameters Hungchu Chen, Urban Science and Systems, Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
		Isfahan's Urban Design Sustainability with Climate During Safavid Period. Mehdi Haghighat Bin, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, Islamic Republic of
		Urban heat islands in the future Hanoi City: Impacts on indoor thermal comfort and cooling load in residential buildings Andhang Rakhmat Trihamdani, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan
		Thermal impact of blue infrastructure: Casestudy Cheonggyecheon, Seoul (Korea) Conrad Heinz Philipp, University of South Australia, Australia
		Simulating the extent of the moderating influence of green space distribution on future urban climates Michael Roth, Klimaat Consulting & Innovation Inc.
		CCMA 6 : Urban air pollution mitigation strategies
		A simple technique for improved particle filtration efficiency of vegetation barriers Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)
		Capability of urban woody plants to reduce particulate matter contentin Tehran megapolis Ramin Erfanian Salim, Green Space organization, Tehran Municipality, Iran, Islamic Republic of; Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, Islamic Republic of
		Impacts of urban spatial structure on air quality: an integrated modeling approach Vincent Viguié, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France ; CIRED, Campus du Jardin Tropical, 45 bis, avenue de la Belle Gabrielle, 94736 Nogent-sur-Marne Cedex
		CCMA 7 : UHI mitigation strategies III : watering processes studies
		The implementation of biofiltration systems, rainwater tanks and urban irrigation in a single-layer urban canopy mode Matthias Demuzere, KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environment al Sciences, Celestijnenlaan 200E, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; CRC for Water Sensitive Cities, Australia
		Impacts of urban heat island mitigation strategies on surface temperatures in downtown Tokyo Nobumitsu Tsunematsu, Tokyo Metropolitan Research Institute for Environmental Protection, Japan
		Watering practices and urban thermal comfort improvement under heat wave conditions Maxime Danie,CNRM-GAME / Météo-France, France
		The effect of irrigation on air temperature during heatwave conditions Ashley Mark Broadbent, Monash University
		Rain Water Catchment Design Applied to Educational Centers in Mexico Jesús Gómez Velázquez, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Mexico
		Passive irrigation of street trees to improve tree health and support urban cooling Andrew Coutts, Monash University, Australia; CRC for Water Sensitive Cities
		CCMA 8 : UHI mitigation strategies IV : vegetation management processes
		The urban tree as a tool to mitigate the urban heat island in Mexico City: a simple phenomenological model Monica Ballinas, Instituto de Ecología, UNAM, Mexico; Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, UNAM
		Evaluating climate-related ecosystem services of urban tree stands in Szeged (Hungary) Ágnes Gulyás, University of Szeged, Hungary
		CCMA 9 : UHI mitigation strategies V : vegetation based strategies
		How Do Green Roofs Mitigate the Urban Heat Island Effects under Heat Waves? Ting Sun, Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of
		Evaluation of greening scenarios to reduce Paris city vulnerability to future heat waves Cécile, Sylvie DE MUNCK, CNRM-GAME,CNRS UMR3589, Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Toulouse, France
		Green infrastructure and ecosystem services to tackle climate change in Chilean cities. Cristian Henriquez, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
		Evaluation of CO2 Reduction Effects of Buildings with Green Roofs by Using a Coupled Urban-Canopy and Building-Energy Model Yujiro Hirano, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan;
		Evaluation of greening scenarios to reduce Paris city vulnerability to future heat waves Cécile De Munck, CNRS/Météo-France, France

	TUKUP : Transfer of urban climate knowledge to urban planners
		TUKUP 1 : Public policies and practices
		It’s Not All or Nothing: Partial retreat as a climate adaptive strategy for resilient coasts Judd Schechtman, New York University, United States of America
		Integration of urban climate issues in urban planning : reflections on which are the keys of success Julia Hidalgo, LISST/CNRS, France
		What motivates urban poor in Bangladesh to adapt with urban ecosystem services and disservices? Md Mustafa Saroar, Khulna University, Bangladesh, People's Republic of
		The urban heat island in Beirut and transfer of the urban climate knowledge to urban planners Noushig Chahe Kaloustian, Université Paris Est Marne La Vallee, Paris, France
		Adapting cities to climate Change: a systemic modelling approach Vincent Viguié, International Centre for Research on environment and Development
		TUKUP 2 : Governance challenges in urban planning and adaptation
		The heat adapted city? A Constellation Analysis of urban governance and planning to tackle heat stress risks in mid-latitude cities Nicole Mahlkow, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
		Urban Planning and the Climate issues of Beirut and Hamburg: Comparison or approaches, tools and decision making processes. Noushig Chahe Kaloustian, Université Paris Est Marne La Vallee, Paris, France, Lebanon (Lebanese Republic)
		A review of studies on the relationship between urban morphology and urban climate towards better urban planning and design in (sub)tropical regions Justin CK Ho, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)
		Reasons to adapt to urban heat (in the Netherlands) Lisette Klok, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, The
		Capacity for Urban Adaptation to Climate Change: Case Study of Erzurum and Kayseri Defne Dursun, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
		TUKUP 3 : Amendment and development of urban planning regulation
		Urban climate, human behavior and energy consumption : from LCZ mapping to simulation and urban planning (the MapUCE project) Valéry Masson, Météo-France, France
		Enhancing adaptation to climate change in urban environments through brownfield or vacant land Gina Cavan, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
		How is urban climate taken into account in urban design? Focus on French eco labels of urban design Delphine Chouillou, LISST, Université Toulouse 2 le Mirail / CNRS, Toulouse, France
		The Assessment Report for Climate Change in Cities (ARC3 -2) Urban Planninng and Design Jeffrey Raven, New York Institute of Technology, United States of America
		TUKUP 4 : Weather forecasting for city actors
		From Urban Meteorology, Climate and Environment Research to Urban Integrated Services Alexander Baklanov, World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Switzerland
		Numerical Weather Prediction System dedicated to Urban Comfort and Safety during the 2015 Pan-American Games in Toronto Stéphane Bélair, Recherche en Prevision Numérique, Meteorological Research Division, Environment Canada, Canada
		Urban Climate Services in China: Current capabilities and future needs C. S. B. Grimmond, Univerisit of Reading, United Kingdom; Shanghai Institute of Meteorolgical Science
		Climate information application for improved planning and management of cities Chaeyeon Yi, Weather Information Service Engine project of KMA, Korea, Republic of (South Korea);
		Summer in the city - High Resolution Modelling and Validation of Urban Weather for Amsterdam Reinder Ronda, Wageningen University, Netherlands, The
		TUKUP 5 : Indicators and climate maps I : risks & vulnerability
		Method for evaluating the health hazard risk in urban pedestrian space in extremely hot summer conditions based on the total analysis of mesoscale and microscale climates Saori Yumino, Tohoku University, Japan
		Urban Heat Island measurements and sustainability maps to help access vulnerability and potential mitigation techniques in Birmingham and Auburn-Opelika, Alabama Chandana Mitra, Auburn University, United States of America
		Spatial analysis for climate vulnerability assessments: How much granularity do we need? oyce Ellen Klein-Rosenthal, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, United States of America; Harvard University Center for Population and Development Studies
		Study of urban climate as a basis for climate adaptation and urban planning in Chilean cities Cristian Henríquez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
		TUKUP 6 : Indicators and climate maps II : urban planning
		Preparing urban climate maps using Local Climate Zones (LCZ) methodology to improve communication with urban planners: the case of Tandil city, Argentina Natasha Picone, IGEHCS - CONICET/UNCPBA, Argentine Republic
		Urban Climate Zoning for Making "Hint Map for Urban Planning" Kaoru Matsuo, Hiroshima University, Japan
		A GIS-based Modelling-Mapping Approach for Fine-Scale Natural Ventilation Evaluation in High Density Cities Chao Yuan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America; Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
		TUKUP 7 : Warning plans & Decision support tools
		CLIMATIC CHANGE ADAPTION AMIDST OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL HAZZARDS Shukuli Mukangango, Regional Climate Change Support Initiative (RCCSI), Uganda
		Water Induced Livelihood Impact and Adaptation Strategy of Farming Households in Manohara River, (Aperi-urban area of Kathmandu, Nepal) Hari Bahadur Thapa, Ministry of Energy, Nepal
		Assessing the health impact of the Urban Heat Island of Birmingham, UK Paul Anthony Fisher, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
		The Urban Heat Island effect during heatwaves in Melbourne Cassandra Denise Wilks Rogers, Monash University, Australia; CRC for Water Sensitive Cities
		Communicating Climate Change to Urban Planners in the Great Lakes: Cities Impacts and Adaptation Tool Evan Sheppard Mallen, University of Michigan Graham Sustainability Institute
		Science communication with analysis by stakeholder themselves Tooru Sugiyama, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan
		The CapaCities project: from Concepts to Actions for a Proactive Adaptation of Cities Marion Bonhomme, ENSA Toulouse - LRA (Laboratoire de Recherche en Architecture), France;
		UMEP - An integrated tool for urban climatology and climate-sensitive planning applications Fredrik Lindberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
		Integration of adaptation to climate change within the design process of urban planning projects : new tool(s) and new methodology(ies) Morgane Colombert, Université Paris Est, EIVP, Lab'Urba, EA 3482, France

	UCP : Study of urban climate processes
		UCP 1 : UHI characteristics I: link with boundary layer
		A Breath of Fresh Air in Urban Heat Island Studies Natalie Theeuwes, Wageningen University, Netherlands, The
		Observed Spatial Characteristics of Beijing Urban-Climate Impacts on Summer Robert Bornstein, Department of Meteorology and Climatology, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA
		An investigation of the dynamic and thermodynamic impacts of urbanization via WRF-LES XiaoLiang Zhu, State Key Laboratory of Hydro-Science and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
		Observation and Simulation on the Characteristics of Summer Urban Heat Island in Nanjing, China Chenggang Wang, Nanjing University of Infromation Science and Technology, China, People's Republic of
		Urban heat island in the metropolitan area of São Paulo and the influence of warm and dry air masses during summer Flávia Noronha Dutra Ribeiro, University of São Paulo, Brazil
		UCP 2 : UHI characteristics II: vertical and horizontal structure
		About the relation between urban topsoil moisture and local air temperature Sarah Wiesner, Meteorological Institute, CEN, Universität Hamburg, Germany; Institute of Soil Science, CEN, Universität Hamburg, Germany
		Investigating the impact of anthropogenic heat on urban climate using a top-down methodology Ronny Petrik, University of Hamburg, Germany
		Effects of Urban Form and Atmospheric Stability on Local Microclimate Patricia Drach, UFRJ, Brazil
		Urban Heat Island of Arctic cities Pavel Konstantinov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Russian Federation
		Vertical range of urban ‘heat island’ in Moscow Mikhail A. Lokoshchenko,Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Russian Federation
		Urban Heat Island in the Lyon metropolitan areas. Julita Diallo-Dudek, University of Lyon, France
		UCP 3 : UHI characteristics III : UHI micro-scale variability
		Urban heat island study between different size of towns and cities Chen-Yi Sun, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, Republic of China
		A Simple Statistical Model for Predicting Fine Scale Spatial Temperature Variability in Urban Settings Brian Lee Vant-Hull, City University of New York, United States of America
		Mapping of micro-meteorological conditions using statistical approaches - The example of Stuttgart Christine Ketterer, Chair of Meteorology and Climatology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany
		Cross-analysis between variability of the urban climate and the landscape heterogeneity at the scale of a neighbourhood for a subgrid parametrization in TEB model Julien Le Bras, Météo-France, France
		Multilevel Analysis of Spatiotemporal Regime of Air Temperature in Urban and Suburban Landscape (Casestudy: The Town of Olomouc, Czech Republic Miroslav VYSOUDIL, Palacky University, Fac. of Sciences, Czech Republic
		The heterogeneity of urban thermal environment during summertime as observed by in situ and remotely sensed measurements Feng Chen, Sun Yat-sen University, China, People's Republic of
		UCP 4 : Observations of surface energy and water balances
		The daytime energy budget of small parks in Mexico City and Lisbon, Portugal, as derived by tree sap-flow measurements and transpiration modeling Victor L Barradas, Instituto de Ecología, UNAM
		Multi-year energy balance and carbon dioxide fluxes over a residential neighborhood in a tropical city Matthias Roth, National University of Singapore, Singapore
		Micrometeorological impacts of an ephemeral desert city: The Burning Man experiment Andrew J. Oliphant, San Francisco State University, United States of America
		UCP 5 : Observations of Greenhouse gases fluxes
		Eddy covariance flux towers as urban monitoring systems of greenhouse gases: the Mexico City experience Erik Velasco, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore
		Carbon dioxide flux measurement in the central area of Tokyo Tatsuki Hirano, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, National Defense Academy of Japan
		Carbon dioxide fluxes of turfgrass species in urban turfs in Hong Kong Ling KONG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)
		Net turbulent fluxes of methane and carbon dioxide in the city of Lódz, Poland – comparison of diurnal and seasonal variability Wlodzimierz Pawlak, Department of Meteorology and Climatology, University of Lodz, Poland
		Seasonal and inter-annual variation of CO2 flux and concentration in Basel Michael Schmutz, University of Basel, Switzerland
		Quantification of the surface-atmosphere exchange of energy and carbon dioxide of an extensive urban green roof by eddy covariance measurements Jannik Heusinger, TU Braunschweig, Germany
		UCP 6 : Radiation processes
		Urban-rural differences in longwave radiation –Lódz case study Krzysztof Fortuniak, University o Lodz, Poland
		Spatial variability, horizontal anisotropy and diurnal evolution of measured infra-red fluxes in a city neighborhood of Toulouse Bertrand Carissimo, CEREA, France
		Investigation of the effect of different sealed surfaces on local climate and thermal stress Erich Mursch-Radlgruber, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
		UCP 7 : Air quality in urban boundary layer : processes
		A numerical study of pollutant entrainment in a street network Omduth Coceal, University of Reading, United Kingdom; National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK
		Impact of heat waves (HWs) on air pollution (case study for HWs episode in June-August 2010 in the Kiev city (Ukraine) Sergiy Snizhko, Kiev Shevchenko University, Ukraine
		A WRF-Chem modelling study to analyse the effect of urban greening and white roofs on urban air quality. Joachim Fallmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
		CFD MODELING OF REACTIVE POLLUTANTS IN AN URBAN STREET CANYON USING DIFFERENT CHEMICAL MECHANISMS Beatriz Sanchez, Air Pollution Division, Environmental Department, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
		Turbulence and pollutant transport in urban roughness sublayer under stable stratification: a large-eddy simulation Xian-Xiang Li, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore
		The ClearfLo project – Are sea breezes a mechanism to change the air in London? Sylvia I Bohnenstengel, Met Office@Reading, Reading, UK; Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
		Simulations of Pollutant Dispersal over Nairobi City, Kenya George OTIENO, IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre
		On the Transport of Chemically Reactive Pollutants over Urban Roughness in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Zhangquan WU, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)
		MICROSCALE MODELLING OF EFFECTS OF REALISTIC SURFACE HEAT FLUXES ON POLLUTANT DISTRIBUTION WITHIN A SIMPLIFIED URBAN CONFIGURATION Jose Luis Santiago, Air Pollution Division, Environmental Department, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
		UCP 8 : Influence of mesoscale flows
		High frequency recovering technique of turbulent inflow for LES of urban wind Hidenori Kawai, Tokyo Institute of technology, Japan
		OBSERVED AND MODELED SUMMER THERMAL GRADIENTS AND SEA-BREEZE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Jorge E. Gonzalez, Department of Mechanical Engineering, City College of New York, CUNY, New York, New York, USA
		UCP 9 : Impact of cities on precipitations
		The effect of urban environments on storm evolution through a radar-based climatology of the central United States Darrel Kingfield, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, United States of America; NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, United States of America; Dept. of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma, United States of America
		Impact of urbanization on the Beijing Super-Storm of 21 July 2012 under current and future climatic conditions Fei Chen, NCAR, United States of America
		Numerical simulation of urban influence on summertime precipitation in Tokyo: How does urban temperature rise affect precipitation? Naoko Seino, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan
		Modeling of the 26 August 2011 extreme precipitation event over Tokyo with Canada’s subkm-scale Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) model Stephane Belair, Environment Canada, Canada
		Cities & Storms: How Land Use, Settlement Patterns, and the Shapes of Cities Influence Severe Weather Geoffrey M. Henebry, South Dakota State University, United States of America
		Urban Impacts on Regional Rainfall Climatology Dev Niyogi, Purdue University, United States of America
		UCP 10 : Influence of urban vegetation I : urban trees
		Field Observation on Thermal Environment of an Urban Street with Roadside Trees in a Tropical Climate Hai Jian Toh, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
		Effects of Desert Tree Shade and Ground Cover Surface Cover on Human Comfort in an Arid City Chris Martin, Arizona State University, United States of America
		Incorporating Resolved Vegetation in City-Scale Simulations of Urban Micrometeorology and Its Effect on the Energy Balance Brian N. Bailey, University of Utah
		Weighing whole tree transpiration rate of urban trees and analysis of trees morpho-physiological effects Tomoki Kiyono, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
		Transpiration of urban trees and its impact on nocturnal cooling in Gothenburg, Sweden Janina Konarska, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
		Observed and modelled transpiration cooling from urban trees in Mainz, Germany Jenny Lindén, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Department of Geography, Mainz, German
		Numerical Evaluation of Heat Budget in Tree Crown Considering the Detailed Structure Shinichi Kinoshita, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
		Microclimate regulation potential of different tree species: transmissivity measurements and their application in small-scale radiation modeling in Szeged, Hungary Ágnes Gulyás, University of Szeged, Hungary
		Long term impact of climate on tree-growth patterns in Paris street trees and its consequences on tree cooling potential: A dendroclimatic approach Ambre DAVID, iEES-Paris, Paris, France
		UCP 11 : Influence of urban vegetation II : parks & green roofs
		The climatic and bio-climatic impact of a small central city park on the surrounding urban environment during extreme heat events Asieh Motazedian, School of Earth Environment and Atmosphere, Monash University, Australia
		Influence of urban vegetation. Charles REVAUD, med ingenierie, France
		Temporal variations of transpiration and latent heat fluxes from isolated linden crowns and lawns in a park at Strasbourg, France Jérôme NGAO, UMR 547 PIAF, INRA - U. Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
		Thermal effects of Woody Green Areas in Urban Landscapes in Campinas City, Brazil Lucila Chebel Labaki, UNICAMP, Brazil
		Leaf area measurements of urban woodlands, parks and trees in Gothenburg, Sweden Jenny Klingberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
		UCP 12 : Flows & dispersion I : pollutant dispersion in urban canopy
		Pollutant Exchange and Breathability in Urban Street Canyons Negin Nazarian, University of California, San Diego, United States of America;
		Characteristics of scalar dispersion from a continuous area source over a cubical array Naoki Ikegaya, Kyushu University, Japan
		On the exchange velocity in street canyons with tree planting SILVANA DI SABATINO, Department of Physics and Astronomy (DIFA) - ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - University of Bologna (IT); RESEAUX S.r.l. - Lecce (IT)
		UCP 13 : Flows & dispersion II : effects of atmospheric stability
		Parametric studies of urban morphologies of high density cities and their air ventilation performance under neutral and unstable atmospheric conditions using advanced large-eddy simulations Edward Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)
		>Analysis of spacing of streaky structures within surface layer above real urban Ayako YAGI, Japan
		Variations in the power-law index with stability and height for wind profiles in the urban boundary layer Ryozo Ooka, The University of Tokyo, Japan
		Study of Stably Stratified Flows and Ventilation over Idealized Street Canyons using a Single-Layer Hydraulics Model Chun-Ho Liu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)
		LES analysis on atmospheric dispersion in urban area under various thermal conditions Yuto Sakuma, Graduate Student, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
		The urban heat island circulation with idealized building clusters by up-scaling CFD model: from buildings scale to city scale Xiaoxue Wang, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)
		UCP 14 : Flows & dispersion III : turbulent and dispersive fluxes in urban canopy
		Large-eddy simulations to characterize the role of turbulent and dispersive production, transport and dissipation of TKE over and within a realistic urban canopy Marco Giometto, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
		The interaction between roughness turbulence generated by block arrays and wake around large obstacle Nurizzatul Atikha Binti Rahmat, Kyushu University, Japan, Japan

	GD : Geospatial datasets
		GD 1 : Surface UHI from satellite
		Cities as urban clusters: an empirical and large sample study of urban heat island intensity Bin Zhou, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany
		Directional analyses of UHI intensity over Delhi with respect to variations in vegetation cover in the National Capital Region of India Krishan Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, India
		The Urban ‘Oasis’: High Resolution Landsat 5TM and ASTER Thermal Imagery Shows the Influence of Water Usage on City-Wide Temperatures in Dubbo, Australia Nigel James Tapper, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Australia; CRC for Water Sensitive Cities, Australia
		Analysis of the impact of different temporal aggregation techniques of land surface temperature on SUHI indicators and the relationship of surface temperature with population density and night lighting. Lech Gawuc, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
		GD 2 : Local climate zones I : WUDAPT
		An introduction to the WUDAPT project Gerald Mills, UCD, Ireland
		CENSUS of Cities: LCZ Classification of Cities (Level 0): Workflow and Initial Results from Various Cities Benjamin Bechtel, University of Hamburg, Germany
		Generating WUDAPT’s Specific Scale-dependent Urban Modeling and Activity Parameters: Collection of Level 1 and Level 2 Data Linda See, IIASA, Austria
		Demonstrating the Added Value of WUDAPT for Urban Modelling Johan Feddema, Department of geography, University of Victoria, Victoria, CA
		The Portal Component, Strategic Perspectives and Review of Tactical plans for Full Implementation of WUDAPT Jason K Ching, UNC, Institute for the Environment, United States of America
		Comparison and integration of LCZ classification methods based remote sensing and GIS Tamás Gál, University of Szeged, Hungary
		GD 3 : Local climate zones II : methodologies and maps
		Exploiting Earth Observation data products for mapping Local Climate Zones Zina Mitraka, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Greece
		Building Local Climate Zones basing on socio-economical and topographic vectorial databases Christine PLUMEJEAUD-PERREAU, UMR 7266 LIENSs, France
		GD 4 : Local climate zones III : Inter & Infra-LCZ temperature variability
		Urban Heat Island Study using Local Climate Zones Classification: Nagpur City, India Rajashree Shashikant Kotharkar, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
		Relationship between land use and microclimate based on mobile transect measurements Kathrin Häb, Computer Graphics and HCI Group, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
		Estimation of spatial air temperature distribution at sub-mesoclimatic scale using the Local Climate Zone scheme and mobile measurements François Leconte, Territorial Division for the Eastern Regions, Cerema, Nancy (France); French Environment and Energy Management Agency, Angers (France); LERMAB, Lorraine University, Nancy (France)
		Determining the optimal size of local climate zones for spatial mapping in high-density cities Kevin Ka-Lun Lau, School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
		A "Local Climate Zone" based approach to urban planning in Colombo, Sri Lanka Narein Perera, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
		Evaluating the urban climate using geo-database – GEOCLIM TOOL Marjorie Musy, Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques de la Ville - FR CNRS 2488, France; Centre de recherche méthodologique d'architecture - UMR CNRS 1563, France
		GD 5 : Urban databases and link with models
		ESTIMATING ANTHROPOGENIC HEAT RELEASE FROM MEGACITIES Iain Douglas Stewart, University of Toronto, Canada
		Development of fine-scale urban canopy parameters in Guangzhou city and its application in the WRF-Urban model Xuemei Wang, Sun Yat-sen University, China, People's Republic of
		GENIUS, a methodology to integer building scale data into urban microclimate and energy consumption modelling Nathalie Tornay, LRA - Laboratoire Recherche en Architecture, France
		Comparison of modelled thermal comfort during a heatwave in Melbourne, Australia Stephanie Jeanne Jacobs, Monash University, Australia; CRC for Water Sensitive Cities
		H2GIS a spatial database to feed urban climate issues Erwan Bocher, Atelier SIG, IRSTV FR CNRS 2488, France
		Mapping high-resolution urban morphology for urban heat island studies and weather forecasting at intra-urban scale J J Attema, Netherlands eScience Center, The; Wageningen University, Netherlands, The
		Modeling the impact of future development pathways in Dublin on the urban energy and water balance Paul John Alexander, Irish Climate Analysis & Research Units, Maynooth University, Ireland
		GD 6 : Urban climatology studies I : temperate and cold climate cities
		60 year variability in meteorological and environmental characteristics of the atmosphere in Moscow megalopolis Natalia Chubarova, Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University Russian Federation
		Urban heat island and inertial effects : analyse from field data to spatial analysis Jérémy Bernard, L’UNAM, ENSA Nantes, CERMA/IRSTV , ADEME, France
		GD 7 : Urban climatology studies II : tropical and arid climate cities
		Investigating the Effect of Land Use/Land Cover on Urban Surface Temperature in Makurdi, Nigeria Bernard Tarza Tyubee, Benue State University, Nigeria
		STUDY OF HEAT ISLAND PHENOMENON IN ANDEAN COLOMBIAN TROPICAL CITY, CASE OF STUDY: MANIZALES, CALDAS -COLOMMBIA Dalia Nuith Roncancio Rubio, Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Manizales, Colombia
		Exploring the Spatial and Temporal Variation of Air Temperature in the Extreme Desert Climate of Doha, Qatar M Salim Ferwati, Qatar University, Qatar;
		Analysis of observed temperature trends over urban, town and rural areas of Pakistan Sajjad Hussain SAJJAD, University of Sargodha, Sargodha - PAKISTAN, Pakistan; Laboratoire Image Ville et Environnement, Université de Strasbourg, France
		GD 8 : New remote sensing Technology and data
		Spatial Geotechnologies and GIS tools for urban planners applied to the analysis of urban heat island. Case Caracas city, Venezuela. KARENIA CORDOVA SAEZ, UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of

	NOMTM : New observational and modeling techniques and methods to study urban climates
		NOMTM 1 : Urban Canopy parameterizations I : Urban vegetation
		A multi-layer urban canopy mode l for neighbourhoods with trees E. Scott Krayenhoff, University of British Columbia, Canada
		A NEW PARAMETERIZATION FOR SURFACE HEAT FLUXES IN DENSE URBAN ENVIRONMENTS Jorge Gonzalez, City College of New York, United States of America
		The influence of tree crowns on urban thermal effective anisotropy James Voogt, Western University, Canada
		VTUF: An urban micro-climate model to assess temperature moderation from increased vegetation and water in urban canyons Kerry Nice, Monash University, Australia; CRC for Water Sensitive Cities, Australia
		Modeling of Urban Vegetation as a Thermal Regulator and Management of Associated Water Resources for Neighbourhood to City-scale Applications Emilie Redon, Universite de Toulouse, UPS, Me teo France, CNRM GAME, France
		Modelling Radiative Exchange in a Vegetated Urban Street Canyon Model Duick T. Young, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, United Kingdom;
		NOMTM 2 : Statistical models
		Wind velocity profile observations for roughness parameterization of real urban surfaces Jongyeon Lim, the University of Tokyo, Japan
		Calculation method for outdoor air temper ature of wooded architectural complex Jie Wu, Guangxi University, China, People's Republic of; South Chi na University of Technology, China, People's Republic of
		An intra-urban nocturnal cooling rate model Shiho Onomura, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
		An empirical approach to estimate the biogenic components of CO2 flux over different ecosystems Veronica Bellucco, University of Sassari, Italy
		NOMTM 3 : Computational Fluid Dynamics models
		Thermal stratification and vegetation effects on the urban microclimate – a CFD case study Bharathi Boppana, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore;
		High resolution numerical study of wind, thermal effects and pollution dispersion in urban neighborhoods in Toulouse and Marseille ZHENLAN GAO, MFEE, R&D, EDF; CEREA, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech
		NOMTM 4 : Large Eddy Simulation models
		Large eddy simulation and bulk parameterization of momentum and heat transport in urban canopies: challenges and applications Qi Li, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, US
		Generation of artificial inflow turbulence including scalar fluctuation for LES based on Cholesky decomposition Tsubasa Okaze, Tohoku University, Japan
		NOMTM 5 : Wind tunnel and scale models
		The stone forest as a small-scale field model for urban climate studies Kai Wang, The University of Hong Kong
		Coupling of numerical weather prediction models and physical simulations for urban wind environment Horia Hangan, WindEEE Research Institute, Western University, London, ON, Canada
		Determining the impact of urban canopy flow on building ventilation rates: an experimental study Janet Fraser Barlow, University of Reading, United Kingdom
		Dynamics of a street canyon flow from id ealized field and wind tunnel experiments Karin Blackman, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
		NOMTM 6 : Urban Climate measurement networks
		Climate moderation via green infrastructure – the poten tial to mitigate the UHI effect in Dar es Salaam Sarah Jane Lindley, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
		HIGH-RESOLUTION URBAN HEAT ISLAND MEASURE MENTS AND ELECTRICITY APPLICATIONS IN BIRMINGHAM, UK Juliana Antunes Azevedo, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
		Shanghai’s Urban Integrated Meteorological Observation Network (SUIMON): case studies of applications Jianguo TAN, Shanghai Institute of Meteorological Science, Shanghai Me teorological Service, CMA,China, People's Republic of
		The Urban Heat Island of a middle-size French city as seen by high-resolution numerical experiments and in situ measurements – th e case of Dijon, Burgundy Benjamin POHL, CRC/Biogéosciences, CNRS, France
		Urban climate monitoring system suitability for intr a-urban thermal comfort observations in Novi Sad (Serbia) – with 2014 examples Dragan D Miloševic, Climatology and Hydrology Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
		Network optimization of urban heat island measure ments -Effect of reduction of observation points Tsuyoshi Honjo, Chiba University, Japan
		Challenges and benefits from crowd-sourced atmospheric data for urban climate research using Berlin,Germany, as testbed Fred Meier, Chair of Climatology, Department of Ecol ogy, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
		First results of the data acquisition and analysis of microclimate conditions in Barranquilla, Colombia Estefania Tapias, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
		NOMTM 7 : Field campaigns
		Joint analysis of meteorology and air quality in Helsinki, using air-qu ality supersites and an observation network Curtis Wood, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland;
		A novel approach for anthropogenic heat flux estimation from space Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Greece;
		Land Surface and Climate Change Impacts on Temperature Variation in New York City Brian Vant-Hull, NOAA Crest of City College, United States of America;
		FluxSAP - A collaborative experimental campaign on water and energy fluxes in urban areas and the relation with the vegetation : the case of a Nantes district Fabrice Rodriguez, IFSTTAR, GERS/LEE, Bouguenais, France; IRSTV, Nantes
		The TERRACES project - A collaborative work to understa nd the role of vegetative green roof in refreshing the urban ambiances Remy Claverie, GEMCEA, France;
		PROGRAM MCITY BRAZIL Amauri Pereira Oliveira, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil;
		NOMTM 8 : New sensors/New methods I: CO2 & mobile measurements
		Using stable carbon and oxygen is otopes to attribute measured carb on dioxide emissions in urban environments to different fuel sources Andreas Christen, The University of Britis h Columbia, Vancouver Canada
		A Mobile Sensor Network to Map Car bon Dioxide across Urban Environments Joseph Kang Lee, Department of Geography / Atmospheric Science Progr amme, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
		Evaluating urban climate model simulations with low-cost air temperature measurements Maja Zuvela-Aloise, ZAMG, Austria
		Innovative observations and analysis of human thermal comfort in Amsterdam B.G. Heusinkveld, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
		Air temperature retrieval from crowd-sourced smar tphone battery temperatures for Dutch cities and its application in mesoscale model validation Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Wageningen University, Net herlands, The Netherlands
		Statistical Partitioning Of Net Carbon Dioxide Fluxes Over A Heterogeneous Urban Landscape Olaf Menzer, UC Santa Barbara, United States of America
		Calculation of the CO2 storage term in an urban en vironment: results and guid elines from Central London Alex Bjorkegren, King's College London, United Kingdom
		NOMTM 9 : New sensors / New methods II : UBL & UHI
		Mixing height over London: spatio-temporal characteristics observed by Ceilometer networks Simone Kotthaus, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, United Kingdom
		New York Metro-Area Boundary Layer Catalogue: Boundary Layer Height and Stability Conditions from Long-Term Observations David Melecio-Vazquez, The City College of New York, United States of America
		Measuring the real-world effects of urban heat island countermeasures: a case study of pavement-watering Martin Hendel, Paris City Hall, Water and Sanitation Department, France; Université Paris Est, EIVP, Lab'Urba, EA 3482; Univ Paris Diderot, Paris Sorbonne Cité, MSC, UMR 7057, CNRS
		NOMTM 10 : Urban Canopy parameterizations II : development & sensitivity
		Interfacing the urban land-atmosphere system with a coupled UCM-SCM framework: model development and sensitivity Zhihua Wang, Arizona State University, United States of America
		Improving the water budget in the ur ban surface scheme TEB for a better ev aluation of green infrastructures for adaptation purposes Katia Chancibault, LUNAM-IFSTTAR
		Adequately and Efficiently Representing H eat Conduction and Storage for Urban Surfaces Mathew Lipson, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence fo r Climate System Science; Climate Change Research Centre; University of New South Wales, Australia
		Integration of Urban Microclimate Models using the QUIC EnvSim GPU Framework Peter Willemsen, University of Minnesota Duluth, United States of America
		Sensitivity analysis and optimization of an urban surface energy balance parameterization at a tropical suburban site Suraj Harshan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
		Seasonal comparison of three urban land surface schemes in a high-latitude city of Helsinki Leena Järvi, University of Helsinki, Finland
		Validation of a Lumped Thermal Para meter Model coupled with an En ergyPlus Model using BUBBLE Data Miguel Martin, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates
		Modelling anthropogenic heat in urba n climate models: capturing agency Stefan Thor Smith, University of Reading, United Kingdom
		NOMTM 11 : Mesoscale and Numerical Weather prediction models
		Evaluation of building energy use: from the urban to the building scale Dasaraden Mauree, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
		High resolution Numerical Weather Prediction of the urban boundary layer – a comparison with observations for London, UK Janet Fraser Barlow, University of Reading, United Kingdom
		Sensitivity of mesoscale models to scale-dependent UCP inputs Marina Neophytou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus; Swiss Federal In stitute of Technology, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland
		On the importance of horizontal turbulent transport in high resolution mesoscale simulations over cities. Alberto Martilli, CIEMAT, Spain
		Impact of an Urban Land Surface Scheme on Local Cl imate Simulation for the Tokyo metropolitan area Toshinori Aoyagi, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan
		Simulation of the urban heat island under the background of urbanization around Guangzhou Guang Chen, South China University of Technology, China, People's Republic of; Tohoku University,Japan
		The Impact of Land Use/Land Cover on WRF Model Pe rformance in a Sub-Tropical Urban Environment Shweta Bhati, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
		Development of a fine-scale numeri cal weather prediction system for urban areas: Preliminary results Shiguang Miao, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Me teorological Administration, Beijing, China

	UDC : Urban design with climate
		UDC 1 : Impact of Urban forms on outdoor ventilation
		Natural Ventilation Performance in a High Density Urban Area Based on CFD Numerical Simulations in Dalian Fei Guo, architecture and art school,dalian university of tech, China, People's Republic of
		Anthropogenic heat contribution to air temperature increase at pedestrian height in Singapore’s high density Central Business District (CBD) Daniel Jun Chung Hii, National University of Singapore, Singapore
		Urban wind design for Bonifacio’s citadel Dominique Dias, Urbalterre, France
		Preserving Overall Performance of Air Conditioners by Incorporation of Wind- Permeable Floor in Buildings Karl An, Division of Environment, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong S. A. R. (China)
		UDC 2 : Impact of Urban forms on comfort II : temperate and cold climate cities
		The impact of urban geometry on the radiant environment in outdoor spaces Christina Chatzipoulka, Kent School of Architecture, University Of Kent, United Kingdom
		Neighbourhood morphology and solar irradiance in relation to urban climate Nahid Mohajeri, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
		Climate-Conscious Development of an Urban Area Györgyi Baranka, Hungarian Meteorological Service, Hungary
		Sensitivity of Perceived Temperature on meteorological variables and urban morphology parameters Robert Schoetter, CNRM-GAME, Météo France, Toulouse, France
		An evaluation of the effects of heat ray retro-refl ective film on the outdoor thermal environment using a radiant analysis method considering directional reflection Shinji Yoshida, University of Fukui, Japan
		Creating Urban Cool Islands effects for summer season in Toulouse new area: urban microclimate adaptation Stéphane Ginestet, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse, France
		UDC 3 : Impact of Urban forms on comfort I : tropical and arid climate cities
		Evaluation of the effect of densification of the built environment on outdoor thermal comfort in warm- humid Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Erik Johansson, Lund University, Sweden
		The role of urban design in enhancing the microclimate and thermal comfort in warm-humid Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Moohammed Wasim YAHIA, Lund University, Sweden
		AMONG WINDS, WATER BODIES AND URBAN ELEMENTS Léa Cristina Lucas de Souza, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, Brazil
		Climate-Friendly Urban D esign Process in Old Towns alongside the Persian Gulf, Case Study: Bushehr Najmeh Motalaei, University of Applied Science, Tehran, Iran
		Holistic Method on Performing Microclimate Analyses of an Urban Area in the Tropics Hii Daniel Jun Chung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
		UDC 4 : Impact of Urban forms on comfort III : theoretical studies
		Effects of Different Floor Covering Material s on Thermal Comfort in Landscape Design Studies Mehmet Akif Irmak, Ataturk University, Turkey
		Impact of Urban Morphology on Average Urban Albedo Xinyan Yang, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)
		Analysis of human thermal conditions in winter for different urban structures in Erzurum Hasan YILMAZ, Ataturk University, Turkey
		UDC 5 : Buildings climate and energy consumption III : new models
		Urban Microclimate: A new software development for urban design and planning with urban heat island effect Aiko Nakano, MIT, United States of America
		RESEARCH ON THE OUTDOOR CLIMATE DISTRIBUTIO N AND EFFECT FOR THE AIR-CONDITIONING LOAD OF A THOUSAND-METER SCALE SKYSCRAPER Junliang Cao, School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering,Harbin institute of technology, Harbin, People's Republic of China
		Urban weather generator: a method to predict neighborhood-specific urban temperatures for use in building energy simulations Leslie Norford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America
		UDC 6 : Energy demand at city scale
		Translating the Urban Heat Island effect into power consumption for space-cooling: A case-study of megacity Delhi, India Anurag Kandya, Department of Civil Engineering, Indus University, Ahm edabad, India; Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
		Sensitivity of electricity consumption to air temperat ure, air humidity and solar radiation in city-block scale – Based on 2013 Osaka city observation – Yuki Hashimoto, The University of Tokyo, Japan
		Comprehensive validation of a simulation system for simultaneous prediction of urban climate and building energy demand Yukihiro Kikegawa, Meisei University, Japan
		EXPLOITING URBAN PHYSICS - A ‘Form First’ A pproach to Sustainable Urban Development Julie ann Futcher, Urban Generation, United Kingdom
		Could urban climate modelling systems provide urban planning guidelines in the context of building energy performance issues? Manon KOHLER, Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement, Strasbourg-France
		UDC 7 : Buildings climate and energy consumption II : temperate and cold climate cities
		URBAN MICROCLIMATE AND BUILDING ENERGY: A COUPLED SIMULATION APPROACH Maya MILLIEZ, EDF R&D EnerBaT, Moret-sur-Loing, France
		The urban heat island and its influence on building energy consumption in England and South Korea Geoffrey John Levermore, The University of Manchester, School of Me chanical, Aerospace and Civil Engeineering,United Kingdom; School of Space Design, Ulsan College, South Korea;
		Assessment of urban cooling strategies impact using a coupled model for urban microclimate and building energy simulation Adrien Gros, University of La Rochelle, LaSIE FRE CNRS 3474 (France); Institut de Recherche des Sc iences et Techniques de la Ville (France)
		Outdoor human comfort and climate change. A case study in the EPFL campus in Lausanne Silvia Coccolo, LESO-PB, EPFL, Switzerland
		Taking into account building environment in the energy consumption evaluation Benjamin MORILLE , IRSTV – FR CNRS 2488, France
		Urban Greening and the UHI: Seasonal Trade-offs in Heating and Cooling Energy Consumption in Manchester, UK Cynthia Pamela Skelhorn, Qatar Green Building Council, Qatar
		URBAN CANYONS MORPHOLOGY, THERMAL COMFORT AND URBAN DESIGN IN CONCEPCION'S CITY, CHILE Cristobal Lamarca, Pontificia Universidad católica de Chile, Chile
		UDC 8 : Buildings climate and energy consumption I : tropical, continental and arid climate cities
		Impact of increasing the depth of urban street canyons on building heating and cooling loads: Case study of Tel Aviv, Israel Evyatar Erell, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
		Evaluation of Smart Shading Structures in Mitigating Urba n Heat Island in a districts of Hot Arid Climate City (Abu Dhabi) Lindita Bande, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
		Climate-responsive resident ial buildings in India. Just a drop in the ocean? Marco Simonetti, DENERG, Politecnico of Turin, Italy
		Shading effect of Alley Trees a nd Their Impact on Indoor Comfor Flóra Szkordilisz, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
		Energy and Comfort in School Buildings in the South of Portugal Eusébio Zeferino Encarnação da Conceição, University of Algarve, Portugal

	BPH : Bioclimatology and public health
		BPH 1 : Modeling of outdoor microclimate & comfort
		The role of trees in urban thermal comfort and SkyView Factor Sevgi Yilmaz, Ataturk University, Turkey
		Developments and applications of thermal indices in urban structures by RayMan and SkyHelios model Andreas Matzarakis, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany
		Heat-related health impacts associated with the urban heat island and climate change in the West Midlands, UK. Clare Helen Heaviside, University of Birmingham; Public Health England
		A contribution to the summertime heat improvement in a marathon course by application of radiate and airflow simulation Yasunobu Ashie, National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Japan
		A Multiscaler Thermal Analysis of Urban Playgrounds Jennifer Vanos, Texas Tech University, United States of America
		BPH 2 : Indoor comfort and link with outdoor conditions
		Indoor-outdoor environmental coupling and exposure risk to extreme heat and poor air quality during heat waves David J Sailor, Portland State University, United States of America
		Effect of urban pollution on indoor air quality in energy-efficient buildings in the UK Zhiwen Luo, University of Reading, United Kingdom
		INFLUENCE OF PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF VERTICAL WALL SURFACES ON HUMAN THERMAL SENSATION BASED ON FIELD MEASUREMENTS AND MICROCLIMATE SIMULATION Kiyoshi Sasak, Shimizu Corporation, Japan
		BPH 3 : Observation/surveys of outdoor comfort
		Thermal comfort conditions of urban spaces in a hot-humid climate of Chiangmai city, Thailand Manat Srivanit, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University, Thailand
		Visitor perception of thermal comfort in two contrasting public landscape gardens during extreme heat events Cho Kwong Charlie Lam, Monash University, Australia
		Impact of urban morphology on microclimatic conditions and outdoor thermal comfort – a study in mixed residential neighbourhood of Chennai, India. LILLY ROSE AMIRTHAM, SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY, India
		Outdoor thermal comfort under photovoltaic canopies – a seasonal field study at Arizona State University Ariane Middel, Arizona State University, United States of America
		BPH 4 : Health
		Evaluation of building-scale heat-stress analysis system (BioCAS) based on mortality observation in Seoul Kyu Rang KIM, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
		Estimation of DALY loss due to heat stroke and sleep disturbance caused by air temperature rise in Tokyo, Japan Tomohiko Ihara, The University of Tokyo, Japan
		Inhalation cancer risk assessment in Krasnoyarsk city Olga Taseiko, Siberian State Aerospace University, Russian Federation
		Changing weather factors implication on the prevalence of malaria in Ado-Ekiti, South west, Nigeria. Ademola Akinbobola, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria
		A Field Assessment on Natural Ventilation and Thermal Comfort of Historical District: A case of the Wugoushui Settlement in Taiwan Yu chieh Chu, National Cheng kung University, Taiwan, Republic of China
		Neonates in Ahmedabad, India during the 2010 heat wave: a climate change adaptation study Perry Sheffield, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States of America
		BPH 5 : Human perception and new indicators
		Thermal comfort comparison and evaluation in different climates Lutz Katzschner, UKASS
		How to transform the standing man from a box to a cylinder – a modified methodology to calculate mean radiant temperature in models and field studies Björn Holmer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Sweden
		Watts in a comfort index: Evaluating pedestrian energy exchange and thermal stress in urban environments David Pearlmutter, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
		SHORT-TERM ACCLIMATIZATION EFFECTS IN AN OUTDOOR COMFORT STUDY Eduardo Kruger, UTFPR, Brazil, Germany
		The prediction of outdoor human thermal states in non-uniform thermal loads Yasuhiro Shimazaki, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan

	ID : Interdisciplinarity
		ID 1 : Environmental scholarship and collaborations
		Exploring the changing geography of Urban Climatology: a spatial analysis of scientific production by using IAUC bibliographic data (1999-2012) Denis Eckert, LISST/CNRS/University of Toulouse/EHESS, France
		Scientific practices within the urban climate research field: « Drastic interdisciplinary » between social and natural sciences Géraldine Molina, IRSTV (FR CNRS 2488 – École Centrale de Nantes) - CERMA (ENSAN – UMR CNRS 1563)
		ID 2 : Multicriteria environmental perception
		Thermal notations as a design tool: evaluating the thermal comfort of pedestrians moving in spatial sequences Carolina Vasilikou, Centre for Architecture and Sustainable Environment, University of Kent, United Kingdom
		New qualitative methods to explore thermal perception in urban spaces Sanda Lenzholzer, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, Landscape Architecture
		Performance standard for tropical outdoors:A proposal in a time of climate change Rohinton Emmanuel, Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom
		Perception Studies on the Influence of Trees and Greens in Open Spaces for Environmental Quality Taiwo Aderonke Ewulo, Department of Crop, Soil and Pest Management, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria;
		Observation of urban climate variability at local scale and comparison with human perception Noémie Gaudio, CNRS/Météo-France, France
		Influence of urban climate on perception responses in soundwalks: case study Aachen Margret Sibylle Engel, Institute of Technical Acoustics, Medical Acoustics Group, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; Department of Geography, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
		A methodological approach to the environmental quantitative assessment of urban parks Pninit Cohen, Tel Aviv University, Israel
		Connecting urban climate and human well-being through the measurement of individually experienced temperatures David Hondula, Arizona State University, United States of America