The role of trees in urban stormwater management

A Berland, SA Shiflett, WD Shuster… - Landscape and urban …, 2017 - Elsevier
Urban impervious surfaces convert precipitation to stormwater runoff, which causes water
quality and quantity problems. While traditional stormwater management has relied on gray …

Emerging investigator series: The role of vegetation in bioretention for stormwater treatment in the built environment: Pollutant removal, hydrologic function, and …

CP Muerdter, CK Wong, GH LeFevre - Environmental Science: Water …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Vegetation influences both the hydrologic and pollutant-removal performance of bioretention
cells for green infrastructure stormwater management in the built environment. Vegetation …

Transpiration of urban trees and its cooling effect in a high latitude city

J Konarska, J Uddling, B Holmer, M Lutz… - International journal of …, 2016 - Springer
An important ecosystem service provided by urban trees is the cooling effect caused by their
transpiration. The aim of this study was to quantify the magnitude of daytime and night-time …

[PDF][PDF] 城市热岛效应的研究进展与展望

寿亦萱, 张大林 - 气象学报, 2012 - meto.umd.edu
摘要随着世界各国城市化的进展, 城市热岛效应已经成为一个跨学科领域的问题,
受到包括大气环境, 区域气候, 水文和生态等多学科科学家的关注. 在过去半个多世纪中 …

Transpiration of urban forests in the Los Angeles metropolitan area

DE Pataki, HR McCarthy, E Litvak… - Ecological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Despite its importance for urban planning, landscape management, and water management,
there are very few in situ estimates of urban‐forest transpiration. Because urban forests …

Enhancing hydrologic modelling in the coupled weather research and forecasting–urban modelling system

J Yang, ZH Wang, F Chen, S Miao, M Tewari… - Boundary-Layer …, 2015 - Springer
Urbanization modifies surface energy and water budgets, and has significant impacts on
local and regional hydroclimate. In recent decades, a number of urban canopy models have …

Microclimatic differences and their influence on transpirational cooling of Tilia cordata in two contrasting street canyons in Munich, Germany

MA Rahman, A Moser, T Rötzer, S Pauleit - Agricultural and Forest …, 2017 - Elsevier
Urban trees can help to mitigate the urban heat island through evapotranspiration. However,
growing conditions in cities are heterogeneous and micrometeorological conditions in street …

Patch size of trees affects its cooling effectiveness: A perspective from shading and transpiration processes

M Jiao, W Zhou, Z Zheng, J Wang, Y Qian - Agricultural and Forest …, 2017 - Elsevier
Increasing urban greenspace, particularly trees, has been widely recognized as an effective
means for urban heat mitigation. Lots of uncertainty, however, occurs on how spatial …

Biophysical control of whole tree transpiration under an urban environment in Northern China

L Chen, Z Zhang, Z Li, J Tang, P Caldwell, W Zhang - Journal of Hydrology, 2011 - Elsevier
Urban reforestation in China has led to increasing debate about the impact of urban trees
and forests on water resources. Although transpiration is the largest water flux leaving …

Interactions among spatial configuration aspects of urban tree canopy significantly affect its cooling effects

J Wang, W Zhou, Z Zheng, M Jiao, Y Qian - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasing urban tree canopy (UTC) has been widely recognized as an effective means for
urban heat mitigation and adaptation. While numerous studies have shown that both percent …