Zhi-Hua Wang

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comparative analysis to provide a state-of-the-art review of the recent attempts towards mitigating the urban heat island (UHI) effect in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a synthetic overview of potential environmental impacts of reflective materials at a variety of scales, ranging from energy load on a single building to regional hydroclimate, and recommend that optimal strategy for UHI needs to be determined on a city-by-city basis, rather than adopting a "one-solution-fits-all" strategy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a new surface exchange scheme coupling the transport of energy and water in urban canopies, which is particularly useful for capturing surface exchange processes from vegetated urban surfaces, such as lawns or green roofs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a new numerical framework by incorporating shade trees into an advanced single-layer urban canopy model, which is applied to Phoenix metropolitan area to investigate the cooling effect of different urban vegetation types and their potentials in saving building energy.

TL;DR: In this article, a single-layer urban canopy model is proposed to capture urban land-surface processes, including anthropogenic latent heat, urban irrigation, evaporation from paved surfaces, and urban oasis effect.