caa a22 4500 445800364 CHVBK 20180317145139.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00704-011-0444-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00704-011-0444-6 Sun Chen-Yi Department of Land Economics, National Chengchi University, 11605, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China aut A street thermal environment study in summer by the mobile transect technique [Elektronische Daten] [Chen-Yi Sun] To estimate the impact of street characteristics on the thermal environment in an urban street canyon in a hot and humid region, transect data were used to analyze the relation between three factors (urban green ratio, building ratio, and height-to-width ratio) and air temperature in two streets in Taichung City, Taiwan. In this study, air temperature data were collected by transects at four different level heights (1, 2, 3, and 4m height) in two streets; meanwhile, the use of three street characteristics data calculated by geographic information system (GIS) data which can represent the environment conditions of 34 measured locations. The analysis results shows that the air temperature significantly correlated with height-to-width ratio (r = 0.481), green ratio (r = 0.729), and building ratio (r = 0.654), respectively, at night. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that increasing the green ratio and decreasing the building density are important strategies to mitigate urban warming and to create a comfortable thermal environment. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Theoretical and Applied Climatology Springer Vienna 106/3-4(2011-12-01), 433-442 0177-798X 106:3-4<433 2011 106 704 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-011-0444-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-011-0444-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sun Chen-Yi Department of Land Economics, National Chengchi University, 11605, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theoretical and Applied Climatology Springer Vienna 106/3-4(2011-12-01), 433-442 0177-798X 106:3-4<433 2011 106 704 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer