Project description
Novel thermal-related urban climate analysis and simulation tool
Despite international agreements tackling climate change and global warming, CO2 emissions and global warming continue their upward trend. Urban areas experience higher temperatures and more frequent heatwaves, threatening the health and well-being of citizens. The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon makes cities warmer than surrounding areas, critically affecting the urban climate. The EU-funded MultiCAST project will implement a thermal comfort-related urban decision support system (DSS) to inform on pedestrian-oriented climate planning and design. The DSS will use a Web-GIS as a mainstreaming tool to include the UHI into urban programmes, policies and instruments and incorporate georeferenced outdoor climate and walkability into pedestrian flows modelling. A simulation function will estimate scenarios, compare and visualise the effects of different urban climates.
Fields of science
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic health
- social sciencessocial geographytransportpublic transport
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
MSCA-IF-GF - Global FellowshipsCoordinator
20133 Milano
Italy
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Partners (1)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
02139 Cambridge
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