SIMULATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF VEGETATION ON MICROCLIMATE AND THERMAL COMFORT IN THE CITY OF SÃO PAULO

• Autor(a) principal: Spangenberg, Jörg
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Shinzato, Paula, Johansson, Erik, Duarte, Denise
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Arborização Urbana
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/revsbau/article/view/66265
• topic: urban vegetation, urban microclimate, numerical simulation, pedestrian thermal comfort.

The microclimates of a park, a square and a street canyon were measured on a summer day in the city centre of São Paulo, Brazil. The field monitoring showed that the park was up to 2°C cooler than the square and the canyon. The effect of adding shading trees to the street canyon was simulated for the same day using the numerical model ENVI-met. The simulations showed that incorporating street trees in the urban canyon had a limited cooling effect on the air temperature (up to 1.1°C), but led to a significant cooling of the street surface (up to 12°C) as well as a great reduction of the mean radiant temperature at pedestrian height (up to 24°C). Although the trees lowered the wind speed up to 45% of the maximum values, the thermal comfort was improved considerably as the physiologically equivalent temperature (PET) was reduced by up to 12°C.