Abstract: ntense summer heat in Tokyo, Japan, and its suburban areas between 1990 and 2010 was statistically analyzed. Sample days were selected from among days with a sea breeze and sufficient sunshine duration, because sea breeze ...

Abstract: A series of observations of the three-dimensional wind and thermal structure of the boundary layer was carried out during each summer season from 1986 to 1988 over the western portion of the Kanto plain. The data obtained ...

Abstract: A wintertime small-scale sea breeze associated with high levels of air pollution is described, in which the urban heat island plays an important role. Over a major portion of the Kanto plain, the winter surface air temperature ...

Abstract: A coupled model consisting of a multilayer urban canopy model and a building energy analysis model has been developed to investigate the diurnal variations of outdoor air temperature in the office areas of Tokyo, Japan. ...