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Os efeitos da intensificação dos processos de urbanização no balanço energético...

Urban geometry parameters as indicators for urbanization effects : a case study...

We are convinced of that applied urban climatology can constitute a good life quality and sustainability indicator and can contribute to minimize/avoid situations of danger – or simply of absence of bioclimatic comfort – for the urban population. The area this urban climatology study is about (the parish of Paranhos - Porto - Portugal) grew substantially in the last fifty years, both concerning the quantitative...

The influence of weather types on the urban heat island’s magnitude and pattern...

Oporto is a medium size city on the NW coast of Portugal with approximately 300 000 inhabitants that has experienced an intense urbanization process especially after 1970. Results from daily field work from November 2003 to January 2005 show several different thermal nocturnal pattern in Paranhos, Oporto, some of which we conclude can easily be related to different weather types. Our main purpose is to demonstr...