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© The Author(s) 2016
F. Musco (ed.), Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate
Change Scenario, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-10425-6_7
Chapter 7
The Urban Corridor of Venice and The Case
of Padua
Marco Noro , Renato Lazzarin , and Filippo Busato
Abstract Urban Heat Island effect was widely studied in large cities around the
world, more rarely in medium size ones. The chapter reports on the study of the UHI
phenomenon in Padua, a medium size city of the North-East of Italy, one of the most
industrialized and developed parts of the country. Experimental measurements were
carried out during 2012 summer, recording the main thermo-hygrometric variables
(dry-bulb temperature, relative humidity, global solar radiation) by a mobile survey
along an exact path crossing different zones of the city area: urban, sub-urban and
rural. The analysis of the data highlights the presence of UHI effect with different
magnitudes in function of the zone of the city. In the city centre, an historical zone,
the effect was up to 7 °C. In the meantime, some measurements in situ were carried
out in order to evaluate other thermal comfort indexes rather than air temperature
and humidity only: wind velocity and mean radiant temperature (besides the other
meteorological variables) in some characteristic sites of the city area like historic
centre, high and low density populated residential zones, industrial zone, rural zone,
were recorded. In particular, a very famous square of the city (Prato della Valle) was
analysed: it can be considered representative of the phenomenon because of the size
and the very different characteristics from the UHI effect point of view. RayMan
simulation model was used to calculate some outdoor comfort indexes and Envimet
model was further used to evaluate the effect of some mitigation strategies in characteristic sites of the city.
Keywords Urban heat island • Padua • RayMan • ENVImet • Outdoor thermal
comfort
M. Noro (*) • R. Lazzarin • F. Busato
Department of Management and Engineering (DTG) , University of Padova ,
Stradella San Nicola 3 – 36100 , Vicenza (VI) , Italy
e-mail: marco.noro@unipd.it
© The Author(s) 2016
F. Musco (ed.), Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate
Change Scenario, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-10425-6_7
Chapter 7
The Urban Corridor of Venice and The Case
of Padua
Marco Noro , Renato Lazzarin , and Filippo Busato
Abstract Urban Heat Island effect was widely studied in large cities around the
world, more rarely in medium size ones. The chapter reports on the study of the UHI
phenomenon in Padua, a medium size city of the North-East of Italy, one of the most
industrialized and developed parts of the country. Experimental measurements were
carried out during 2012 summer, recording the main thermo-hygrometric variables
(dry-bulb temperature, relative humidity, global solar radiation) by a mobile survey
along an exact path crossing different zones of the city area: urban, sub-urban and
rural. The analysis of the data highlights the presence of UHI effect with different
magnitudes in function of the zone of the city. In the city centre, an historical zone,
the effect was up to 7 °C. In the meantime, some measurements in situ were carried
out in order to evaluate other thermal comfort indexes rather than air temperature
and humidity only: wind velocity and mean radiant temperature (besides the other
meteorological variables) in some characteristic sites of the city area like historic
centre, high and low density populated residential zones, industrial zone, rural zone,
were recorded. In particular, a very famous square of the city (Prato della Valle) was
analysed: it can be considered representative of the phenomenon because of the size
and the very different characteristics from the UHI effect point of view. RayMan
simulation model was used to calculate some outdoor comfort indexes and Envimet
model was further used to evaluate the effect of some mitigation strategies in characteristic sites of the city.
Keywords Urban heat island • Padua • RayMan • ENVImet • Outdoor thermal
comfort
M. Noro (*) • R. Lazzarin • F. Busato
Department of Management and Engineering (DTG) , University of Padova ,
Stradella San Nicola 3 – 36100 , Vicenza (VI) , Italy
e-mail: marco.noro@unipd.it