Silvana Di Sabatino

TL;DR: The results of this sensitivity study are intended to support policy makers by assessing the potential impact of altering the urban layout in order to improve thermal comfort or as a countermeasure to climate warming in a high-latitude city.

TL;DR: In this paper , a heat-moisture coupled model was extended by adding a new vegetation sub-model to quantify the effects of trees, and the results showed that tree species with a higher leaf area index (LAI) and larger crown had a better capability of transferring sensible heat to latent heat.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented an approach where individual schedules, derived from a lighter version of an activity-based model, are fed into a multi-agent transport simulation (MATSIM) framework, and the impacts of a few traffic management policies (restricting car access, increase in bus frequency) were examined.

TL;DR: In this article, two different modelling approaches, namely the integral-semi-Gaussian model ADMS-TH and the CFD-based model ENVI-met, were applied to assess the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon in a city of south Italy (Lecce).

TL;DR: In this paper, an in-depth analysis of an exceptional incursion of mineral dust over Southern Europe in late March 2020 is presented, which is associated with an anomalous circulation pattern leading to several days of PM10 exceedances in connection with a dust source located in Central Asia a rare source of dust for Europe, more frequently affected by dust outbreaks from the Sahara desert.