Urban heat and residential electricity consumption: A preliminary study |
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Affiliation: | 1. Cardiovascular Research Center (CSIC-ICCC) and Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau (IIB-Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain;2. Department of Vascular Surgery, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain;3. Cardiovascular Research Chair UAB, Barcelona, Spain;1. Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University Campus-Zografou, 15784, Greece;2. Archaeometry Laboratory, Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Aghia Paraskevi, 153 10 Athens, Greece |
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Abstract: | The Urban Heat Island (UHI) is a well-documented phenomenon occurring in cities across the world resulting in city centres often being several degrees warmer than their surroundings. This local elevation in temperatures could potentially impact upon local energy consumption, with residents in the warmer central section of the city using more energy to cool their homes in summer and less energy to warm them in winter. This study uses a combination of Geographical Information System techniques and Remote Sensing data (MODIS LST and NDVI), as a preliminary investigation, to assess the spatial relationship between UHI, urban greenspace, household income and electricity consumption in Birmingham, UK. It provides simple and repeatable steps, based on freely available datasets, for urban planners, industry, human and physical geographers, and non-specialists to reproduce the analyses. The results show that, the present impact of the UHI is limited and instead highlights the dominance of household income over local climate in explaining consumption patterns across Birmingham. |
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Keywords: | Residential electricity consumption Urban greenspace Income Urban heat island |
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