Journal article
The Air-temperature Response to Green/blue-infrastructure Evaluation Tool (TARGET v1.0): An efficient and user-friendly model of city cooling
AM Broadbent, AM Coutts, KA Nice, M Demuzere, E Scott Krayenhoff, NJ Tapper, H Wouters
Geoscientific Model Development | COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH | Published : 2019
Abstract
The adverse impacts of urban heat and global climate change are leading policymakers to consider green and blue infrastructure (GBI) for heat mitigation benefits. Though many models exist to evaluate the cooling impacts of GBI, their complexity and computational demand leaves most of them largely inaccessible to those without specialist expertise and computing facilities. Here a new model called The Air-temperature Response to Green/blue-infrastructure Evaluation Tool (TARGET) is presented. TARGET is designed to be efficient and easy to use, with fewer user-defined parameters and less model input data required than other urban climate models. TARGET can be used to model average street-level ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
At Monash University, Ashley M. Broadbent and Kerry A. Nice were funded by the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, an initiative of the Australian Government. While at Arizona State University, Ashley M. Broadbent was supported by NSF Sustainability Research Network (SRN) Cooperative Agreement 1444758, NSF grant EAR-1204774, and NSF SES-1520803. Matthias Demuzere and Hendrik Wouters were funded by the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities. The contribution of Matthias Demuzere was funded by the Flemish regional government through a contract as a FWO (Fund for Scientific Research) post-doctoral research fellow. E. Scott Krayenhoff was supported by NSF Sustainability Research Network (SRN) Cooperative Agreement 1444758 and NSF SES-1520803.