António Lopes

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of a coastal city with a Mediterranean climate is presented, and a series of climatic guidelines for planning are put forth for the different units of the city.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the rainfall exceptionality and meteorological context of the 20 February 2010 flash-floods in Madeira (Portugal) and evaluated daily and hourly precipitation records from the available rain-gauge station networks, in order to reconstitute the temporal evolution of the rainstorm, as its geographic incidence, contributing to understand the flashflood dynamics and the type and spatial distribution of the associated impacts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the thermal comfort of a sample of days during the summer of 2006 and concluded that most of the sites in the city are “slightly comfortable” during normal days with sea breeze, but only shore sites and the highest green areas offer some comfort during hot days.

TL;DR: In this paper, the cooling potential of all green spaces in Lisbon was estimated using a linear regression model based on the relation between vegetation density and air temperature, which showed that for every decrease of 1 °C in air temperature between a measuring point and a reference station, we need to increase the area covered by vegetation by 50 m2 (planar measure).

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of urban-geographical variables on determining heat islands was analyzed and a model to estimate and spatialize the maximum intensity of urban heat islands (UHI) was proposed.