Object's details: Singularities of the urban climate of Łódź, Central Poland

Provider:Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Description

Title:
Singularities of the urban climate of Łódź, Central Poland
Creator:
Fortuniak, Krzysztof;
Kłysik, Kazimierz;
Pawlak, Włodzimierz;
Podstawczyńska, Agnieszka;
Siedlecki, Mariusz;
Wibig, Joanna;
Zieliński, Mariusz
Contributor:
University of Łódź, Faculty of Geographical Science Department of Meteorology and Climatology
Description:
Published in: Natural environment of Poland and its protection in Łódź University Geographical Research, edited by E. Kobojek and T.Marszał;
The results presented in the work show the selected features of local climate modification caused by urbanisation in Łódź, Central Poland. The city structure is similar to many other mid-European towns, but the influences of urbanisation on local climate are not affected here by other factors. Thus, the outcomes of presented investigations can be generalised for many cities of the region. The findings about the urban heat island are similar to those of other cities and they confirm the general rules about the UHI phenomenon, its spatial distribution and temporal variations (see Arnfield 2003 for a comprehensive review). Similarly, the influence of the city on incoming shortwave radiation in Łódź simply quantify well established relations. More unique are the studies on the albedo and the influence of surface geometry on the absorption of radiation. The influence of the town on humidity is more disputable. On the average, our data confirm the findings on the urban-rural contrasts of these elements, but they also show that unlike the UHI evolution, the diurnal course of humidity differences can take different form even in favourable weather conditions. The measurements of turbulent fluxes of sensible and latent heat, carbon dioxide and methane are unique in Poland and one of the few in Europe; thus they just provide new data and extend our understanding of poorly known processes. At the present stage, it is hard to evaluate if these result are case-specific or more general. The comparison with other cities is problematic because of a small number of similar works – there are several concerning urban energy balance, very few on carbon dioxide flux, and almost none about the flux of methane.
Object availability:
free access
Rights:
Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska;
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl
Date:
2014.10.22;
2014
Type:
Book chapter
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Łódź University Press
Identifier:
978-83-7969-134-0;
http://hdl.handle.net/11089/5596
Data provider:
Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Similar objects

Singularities of the urban climate of Łódź, Central Poland

Date:2014.10.22 | 2014

Type:text

The extreme precipitation conditions in Łódź in the period 1931-1995

Creator:Wibig, Joanna | Fortuniak, Krzysztof

Date:2014.01.09 | 1999

Type:image

The model of winter night-time temperature distribution in Łódź

Creator:Fortuniak, Krzysztof | Kłysik, Kazimierz

Date:2013.12.31 | 1999

Type:image

Cechy charakterystyczne i parametryzacje dochodzącego promieniowania fotosyntetycznie czynnego w środkowym basenie Biebrzy = Characteristics and parametrisations of the photosynthetically active radiation incoming in the Middle Biebrza Basin

Creator:Fortuniak, Krzysztof | Górowski, Jan | Siedlecki, Mariusz | Pawlak, Włodzimierz

Date:2023.12.31 | 2023

Type:other

Wstępne wyniki pomiarów całkowitego promieniowania krótkofalowego i promieniowania UV w Łodzi

Creator:Podstawczyńska, Agnieszka | Fortuniak, Krzysztof

Date:2013.12.16 | 1999

Type:image

Intensity of the urban heat island in Łódź under winter conditions and its simple model

Creator:Fortuniak, Krzysztof | Kłysik, Kazimierz

Date:2013.12.14 | 1999

Type:image

Dobowy i roczny cykl występowania miejskiej wyspy ciepła w Łodzi

Creator:Kłysik, Kazimierz | Fortuniak, Krzysztof

Date:2013.12.14 | 1999

Type:image

Pomiary wybranych elementów meteorologicznych w kanionie ulicznym Łodzi

Creator:Podstawczyńska, Agnieszka | Pawlak, Włodzimierz

Date:2006

Type:image

Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych

Object's details: Singularities of the urban climate of Łódź, Central Poland

Description

Similar objects