Development of a Distributed Modeling Framework to Estimate Thermal Comfort along 2020 Tokyo Olympic Marathon Course

Heat stress is an issue for marathon races in the summer, such as the one planned for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic games. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is planning to grow existing street trees’ canopies to enlarge their shade to reduce air temperature and solar radiation. To formulat...

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Main Authors: Satoshi Hirabayashi, Tsutomu Abe, Fumiko Imamura, Chie Morioka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-05-01
Series:Atmosphere
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/9/6/210