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Iain D. Stewart
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 41
Citations - 5194
Iain D. Stewart is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Urban heat island & Urban climate. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 37 publications receiving 3814 citations. Previous affiliations of Iain D. Stewart include University of British Columbia & University of Regina.
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Local Climate Zones for Urban Temperature Studies
Iain D. Stewart,Timothy R. Oke +1 more
TL;DR: The Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification system as discussed by the authors was developed to address the inadequacies of urban-rural description, and consists of 17 zone types at the local scale (102 to 104 m).
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A systematic review and scientific critique of methodology in modern urban heat island literature
TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review and scientific critique of urban heat island literature from the period 1950 to 2007 is presented, concluding that a large proportion of observational heat island studies are compromised by poor scientific practice.
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Mapping local climate zones for a worldwide database of the form and function of cities
Benjamin Bechtel,Paul J. Alexander,Jürgen Böhner,Jason Ching,Olaf Conrad,Johannes J. Feddema,Gerald Mills,Linda See,Iain D. Stewart +8 more
TL;DR: The WUDAPT protocol developed here provides an easy to understand workflow; uses freely available data and software; and can be applied by someone without specialist knowledge in spatial analysis or urban climate science.
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Evaluation of the ‘local climate zone’ scheme using temperature observations and model simulations
TL;DR: In this paper, the conceptual division of local climate zones (LCZs) with temperature observations and simulation results from surface-atmosphere models is evaluated for heat island studies, and it is shown that thermal contrasts exist among all LCZ classes, and such contrasts are governed largely by building height and spacing, pervious surface fraction, tree density, and soil wetness.
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Energy and material flows of megacities
Christopher Kennedy,Iain D. Stewart,Angelo Facchini,Igor Cersosimo,Renata Mele,Bin Chen,Mariko Uda,Arun Kansal,Anthony S.F. Chiu,Kwi Gon Kim,Carolina Burle Schmidt Dubeux,Emilio Lèbre La Rovere,Bruno Cunha,Stephanie Pincetl,James Keirstead,Sabine Barles,Semerdanta Pusaka,Juniati Gunawan,Michael Adegbile,Mehrdad Nazariha,Shamsul Hoque,Peter J. Marcotullio,Florencia González Otharán,Tarek Genena,Nadine Ibrahim,Rizwan U. Farooqui,Gemma Cervantes,Ahmet Duran Şahin +27 more
TL;DR: The quantification of energy and material flows for the world’s 27 megacities with populations greater than 10 million people as of 2010 is a major undertaking, not previously achieved and largely consistent with scaling laws established in the emerging science of cities.